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- From: kleber@husc11.harvard.edu (Gwydden)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <kleber.725157733@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:42:13 GMT
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- Quoth Arval, in response to Landi:
-
- > > I'd really like to make it to Pennsic again, or one of the other big
- > > gatherings (is there going to be a Thirty Year Celebration?) and I'd like
- > > to be able to tell my friends to look for my banner without worrying
- > > about the possible dozen or so other banners with the same device...
- >
- > I think this is a serious exaggeration of the potential problem. First of
- > all, it is unlikely that so many people will design the same device.
-
- Really? I don't think it's that much of an exaggeration at all, in fact.
- If we eliminated all conflict-checking, I'd be surprised if there weren't
- easily half-a-dozen "Azure, a bend Or" by the next Pennsic, or other
- similar extra-ordinari-ly (wince) simple designs.
-
- > I think one can gauge the likely number of multiple-usages of a device by
- > considering how often a submission is returned for identical conflict with
- > another SCA device. In my experience, that is rare. It happens, but it is
- > rare.
-
- Ah, but the fact that is is rare is only becuase people *know* that
- they need to worry about conflict-- if everyone knew conflict didn't
- matter, they would think of much simpler things from the beginning.
-
- > Second, you are assuming that if we eliminate the current mechanism
- > for enforcing (or at least encouraging) SCA-wide armorial uniqueness,
- > people will make no attempt to achieve that goal on their own or
- > kingdom-by-kingdom. I think that is an unlikely eventuality. I suspect
- > that if Laurel and the College of Arms got out of the job of armorial
- > uniqueness, other, informal means of achieving the same goal would spring
- > up around the SCA.
-
- I do agree that some people would strive to maintain uniqueness-- that is,
- would check to insure no one else was using a set of arms before they
- adopted it. The ones who went to this effort are the ones who would be
- annoyed when someone else later started using the same arms, not caring
- about uniqueness.
-
- --Gwydden Lawen I don't have an overactive
- Borough of Duncharloch, Carolingia imagination... I have an
- --kleber@husc.harvard.edu underactive reality... --EG
-