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Another Somewhat Inaccurate reply

posted 2 years ago by MAGolding (1228)
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And a week or two before today, 03-11-2023, there was an episode where an answer was something like "the person that the Seven Electors elected".

And the question from a contestant which was accepted as correct was "Who was the Holy Roman Emperor?"

In the early centuries the imperial title in Latin was Imperator Augustus which translates as "emperor" or maybe as "Emperor Emperor".

In later centuries the imperial title in Latin was Imperator Romanorum et semper Augustus which translates roughly as "Emperor of the Romans and always Emperor" though some people translate it as "Emperor of the Romans and always august", treating Augustus as an adjective instead of a noun.

So saying the monarch of the Holy Roman Empire used the title of "Holy Roman Emperor" is not exactly correct.

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[–] MAGolding (1228) 4 months ago

And then today, Thursday, July 18, 2024 it was asked:

He became King Charles I of Spain in 1516 and gained this higher title with the name Charles V in 1519 when his grandfather Maximilian I died

Or words to that effect.

And the accepted reply was "what is Holy Roman Emperor".