NORMAN CONQUEST VIDEO GAME

Setting the scene... Server: England

Will_teh_Bastard has entered the server

Eddy_Con:i is leavin ths game

Eddy_Con:Will u can have mi server admin privelages

Will_teh_Bastard:ty

HardMan:n00bs

HardMan has server admin privelages

Will_teh_Bastard: u bitch

HardMan: lol owned

Eddy_Con has left server

Will_teh_Bastard:wtf man

HardMan: he said i culd hav it

Will_teh_Bastard:god dam

editNot happy... Server: France

Will_teh_Bastard pm: froGGy: dude help mi own this guy

froGGy pm: Will_teh_Bastard: sure

froGGy gives 1000 soldiers to Will_teh_Bastard

Will_teh_Bastard recruits army

Will_teh_Bastard: yes

Will_teh_Bastard: i is 1337

editUh Oh... Server: England

Hard_Fi57 has entered the server

Hard_Fi57: sup guys

Hard_Fi57: i is invading this shiz

Will_teh_Bastard: sup

HardMan:no way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HardMan marches army to Stanford Bridge

HardMan attacks Hard_Fi57

critical hit

Hard_Fi57: wth i wasnt ready

Hard_Fi57:c u guys

Hard_Fi57 has left server

HardMan:n00b i is teh pwnzor

Will_teh_Bastard launches fleet

wind +100

Will_teh_Bastard: F***

Will_teh_Bastard launches fleet

Will_teh_Bastard lands near Hastings

editthe Battle of Hastings... Server: England

Will_teh_Bastard: yes!

HardMan:dude wth i was in battle

HardMan marches army to Sussex

HardMan: i will pwn again

Will_teh_Bastard: no way biatch

HardMan uses shield wall

Will_teh_Bastard attacks HardMan

damage +1

HardMan: POWNEDZOR

HardMan attacks Will_teh_Bastard

Will_teh_Bastard counter attacks

critical hit

HardMan: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Norman_archer101000100111 uses arrow on HardMan

critical hit

HardMan has left server

ENGlishxaarmy: screw this shiz

ENGlishxaarmy routs

ENGlishxaarmy has left the server

Will_teh_Bastard: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWNED

editThe aftermath... Server: England

Will_teh_Bastard:who else on teh server

Pesant66: just me

Will_teh_Bastard:sweet

Will_teh_Bastard marches army to London

Will_teh_Bastard has server admin privelages

Will_teh_Bastard: i powns this server

THE TROUBLE WITH RANKS 1: NAMES

Ranks and offices are always a hard nut to crack.

The main reason why is that ranks vary across organizations.

It is interesting to investigate on the subject. To see where rank and office names come from would be the first thing.

In English, it is pretty clear. They're Italic, via la France. Unlike the "barbarian" Saxons, the winners of 1066 were accustomed to elegant royal courts and professional armies. In a Germanic society like the Saxon kingdoms, there would be more need for smiths and bakers than for chancellors and lieutenants.

Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians did not have such close contact with the French. But they had contact with the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages. And those posh Lübeckers that made Sweden independent had connections across the Rhine. There was a "Kanzler" at every petty court (I am referring here to electors, counts...) of the Empire, and more than one "Leutnant" in the Austrian Habsburgs' ranks.

To make things clear, let's chart the evolution of rank and office names in English and Swedish!

French>English:

chancelier>chancellor

lieutenant>lieutenant

French>German>Swedish

chancelier>Kanzler>kansler

lieutenant>Leutnant>löjtnant