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Day: March 8, 2017
Are there languages which refer to the President of the USA as “ruler of the planet”?
As OP hinted, Greek is one. English is not one. The difference between the two is, I believe, instructive. Greek planitarkhis πλανητάρχης means “planet ruler” (or “planet leader”); the Classicising form of it in English would be planetarch. The term was coined in Greek in the early 1990s, when the fall of the Soviet Union […]