• slazer2au
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    491 year ago

    You say that as if any of us know what a marquis is.

    • @cheeseburger@lemmy.ca
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      301 year ago

      It’s a member of the 24th-century paramilitary organization-terrorist group of the same name of course! Notable members will include Laren, Torres, Chakotay, and even one of the Riker twins.

      • @dumpsterlid@lemmy.world
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        101 year ago

        I stopped actually reading your post when I realized I just wanted to make the Star Trek joke but then I realized I was actually in fact reading the Star Trek joke.

      • verity_kindle
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        51 year ago

        They’re all suspiciously good looking, that is how you know they’re secret rebels for a lost cause.

    • @neo@feddit.de
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      81 year ago

      From Wikipedia:

      A marquess (UK: /ˈmɑː®kwɪs/;[1] French: marquis [maʁki])[2][a] is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman with the rank of a marquess or the wife (or widow) of a marquess is a marchioness or marquise. These titles are also used to translate equivalent Asian styles, as in Imperial China and Imperial Japan.

      In Great Britain and historically in Ireland, a marquess ranks below a duke and above an earl. A woman with the rank of a marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is a marchioness /ˌmɑːrʃəˈnɛs/.[3] The dignity, rank, or position of the title is a marquisate or marquessate.

    • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      It’s a fairly common title, so you should know what it is if you were born West of Turkey.

      • slazer2au
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        21 year ago

        Ah, you see I was born east of Turkey where titles mean nothing despite being part of the Commonwealth.

      • @Landsharkgun@midwest.social
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        11 year ago

        Bud, the US literally outlawed aristocratic titles. And good riddance to them. The only time a US citizen sees a word like ‘marquis’ is in a world history class in college.

        • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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          -11 year ago

          Which shows how poor your public education is. The monarchy was disbanded in Brazil in the year 1889; We still learn about it in grade school history.