• @thesporkeffect
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    598 months ago

    It’s the feminine version of “marquis” apparently. If anyone else was wondering what the fuck a marchioness was

    • slazer2au
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      568 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        388 months 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
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          148 months 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          I just watched a YouTube video today about Ben Sisko and his fighting the Marquis and how my current views have made me dislike him and his actions. He had overtaken Picard as my favorite but I think I’m back to Picard being my number one favorite captain.

            • @Gabu
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              38 months ago

              Quite a rude thing to do to the man who just saved the Federation, don’t you think?

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

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

      • @thesporkeffect
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        208 months ago

        I think it’s that thing on a movie theater

        • @I_Fart_Glitter
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          68 months ago

          No, it’s a tent you set up in field to hold wedding receptions under.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 months 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.

      • @pigup
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        8 months ago

        A buick*

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      • @Gabu
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        38 months 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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          28 months ago

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

          • @Gabu
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            38 months ago

            My condolences and congratulations on not being born in the US.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months 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
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            -18 months 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.

    • @Etterra
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      108 months ago

      Marquis? No, that’s a set of large, lit-up letters. You’re thinking of a Marshal.