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- ;;; This was too good to pass up...
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- ;;; From: fishkin@parc.xerox.com (Ken Fishkin)
- ;;; Newsgroups: soc.history
- ;;; Date: 1 Jul 91 17:37:02 GMT
- ;;;
- ;;; For those interested, here are some honest-to-god nicknames given
- ;;; to Medieval European rulers:
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- (namer royal-adjective (random
- "Bald" "Beloved" "Black"
- "Conqueror" "Cruel"
- "Elder"
- "Fair" "Fat" "Fowler"
- "Glorius" "Good" "Great"
- "Hardy" "Harefoot" "Headstrong"
- "Just"
- "Lion"
- "Mad" "Martyr"
- "Peaceful"
- "Simple" "Sluggard" "Stammerer" "Slobberer" ; somebody mentioned this one too
- "Tall"
- "Unready"
- "Victorious"
- "Wise"
- "Younger"
- ))
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- ;;; Example of use.
- ;;;
- ;;; (include "ng-weird")
- ;;; (include "ng-nickname")
- ;;;
- ;;; (namer funny-king-names (grammar full-name
- ;;; (full-name (first-name " the " royal-adjective))
- ;;; (first-name generic-names)))
- ;;;
- ;;; (unit-type king ... (namer "funny-king-names") ...)
- ;;;
- ;;; This is most sensible if some unit type represents the ruler of a
- ;;; side personally.
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