Re: More on ranks, SF, etc.
Kong Wong (Kongwong@mail.datadepot.com)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:54:03 -0700
CSUE@delphi.com wrote:
>
> (Aplologies in advance: I can't "quote" from Delphi mail, the silly thing)
>
> Actually, Field Marcshal is a German rank. Rommel was a Field Marshal.
> (Although I doubt he was the highest ranking German army officer in WW2!)
>
> And, BTW, if you got your _Dune_ from WATCHING it and not READING it, I can
> state with some authority that you are NOT an SF fan. FYI, the term
> "Duke" was originally used for EXTREMELY close kinship rank with the ruler.
> It's not used that way in GHL. In the rea; l world, you can't get "promoted"
> to Duke, you can only inherit it (a la British royalty, and most of the
> rest of Europe) by being the King's cousin or some such.
>
> I agree; I'm not going to argue about the rank system; I'm going to use the
> system I've been translating with all along (which is a mix of army and navy)
> and let the non-SF-fan world learn to deal with it.
>
> - Sue
You don't have to be a cousin or a kinsman in that matter to become a
noble. In the system of feudalism, a noble can gain his title for Valor
in combat. And, I am not that big fan of SF if you are regarding to
Dune's series. I did read the books, and watch the movies. "DUNE" and
"STar War" are two, in my own view, overrated SF series.
I like to have the last word on ranks. The author based LOGH's military
system upon his own country's military system, which the NAVY and the
ARMY is always competing against each other.