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- From: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim)
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- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <725737046.F00003@ocitor.fidonet>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:45:34
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- Tibor wrote:
-
- MS> Tadhg, if I recall correctly, this is inconsistent with your previous
- MS> position on naming conventions.
-
- Quite possibly. Very often I do it just to pull Arval's chain.
-
- MS> You have consistently used pejoratives to describe non-period naming
- MS> practices that are not authentic or documentable, lamenting that
- MS> they are TSCA (Typical SCA).
-
- What, you aren't conversant with my remarks about the fire-breathing swans
- and other NPS dreck that gets submitted as armory? I'll have to send you
- an anthology of my CoA commentary for the past four years.
-
- "Pejoratives"? I'd say that "invective and vituperation" would be rather
- closer to the mark....
-
- MS> So, on the one hand, you seem to maintain that modelling of period
- MS> behavior takes precedence over SCA style when creating names, but the
- MS> inverse when creating armory?
-
- Yup, because the rules are quite different for the two. The name rules say
- explicitly "document it and you can use it", with a very few exceptions;
- the armory rules conversely explicitly disallow practices that are
- demonstrably period, as Lord Treblerose has never ceased to point out. If
- our name rules were as restrictive as our armory rules, we would have far
- fewer Welsh and Vikings and far more French/Spanish/Italians in the SCA,
- than is the case at present. (Of course, if we were really trying to be
- authentic, a large proportion of us would be named "John" and "Mary".)
-
- Another difference is that "SCA armorial style" quite comfortably tries to
- err on the side of authenticity, while "SCA naming style" makes a valiant
- effort to turn us into a mutant descendant of the Tolkien Society by way
- of Darkover and the Dragonriders of Pern....
-
- Tadhg, Obelisk
-
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- * Origin: Herald's Point * Steppes/Ansteorra * 214-699-0057 (1:124/4229)
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