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Discuss the latest article by @Alex Richards here
THIRD BLOODY TIME TRYING TO WRITE THIS I HATE SODDING LIBRARY KEYBOARDS
Alex, Senator Chickpea wrote again, you know that bit at the beginning of Henry V where the Bishops lay out the case for invading France?
There is no bar
To make against your highness's claim to France
But this, which they produce from Pharamond,
'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:
No woman shall succeed in Salic land.'
And how it's normally played for comedy? So you have them making this ridiculous and obscure legalistic case that no one on stage or the audience can follow but sounds learned?
Reading about this dispute made me feel like that. I have no idea if what you wrote is correct or not, or if you knew that at a certain point the word 'Hesse' stops having any meaning and the audience would sit slack-jawed, not wanting to ask questions lest they betray their own ignorance.
How do you research this stuff without your brain turning into cottage cheese?
Alright, you're just doing the 'Spam' sketch now.
There’s a reason why when I went to conceive the idea of Europe in FMS, I decided “This is the Federation of the Rhine and no we are not going to be talking about the member states in any detail even if they are all technically their own sovereign entities.”
The Germans being known as organised disciplined and logical people really is one of the stereotypes that would just be baffling to any time traveler from any period up until 1933 or so isn't it?
I have a love-hate relationship with Napoleon, and helping to sort this mess out is the love side.
The hate side is changing the administrative/territorial borders of places like Switzerland every 5 minutes.
The Germans being known as organised disciplined and logical people really is one of the stereotypes that would just be baffling to any time traveler from any period up until 1933 or so isn't it?