[Ansteorra] SCA slang

[Aurore Gaudin]

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I agree with Duchess Willow,  I'll be in SCA for 8 years come October, cause I join into the game on my birthday.  That first event was pure magic to me.  During the day wandering bards singing and telling stories with leaves falling around their heads and at night hearding them singing and telling stories around a warm fire and new friends around my heart.  I heard strange words and would cock my head like a confused puppy.  Dragons, thought we weren't playing D&D here, oh, cars, cool.  Toilet one never came up, was always privies, but then the site we have was always a little on the primative side (outhouse style, hold nose for that one in summer time) til last year (heated bathrooms with flushing toilets and hot running water in the sinks).  Watches were keep out of sight, so we didn't deal there much either.  To me the SCA is where we tell the history of human mistakes and humanity's greatness, but don't play out the worst parts cause we know better than to let history repeat itself.  Basically we do all the good parts, keeping arts alive like bards, the foods, clothes, even making live steel.  As I've always say, the SCA makes us stronger to live and survive when a time comes that we are force to the basics again.  So what if someone thinks that we are dumb and crazy, they are narrow minded, and will leave us alone in our so-called false world.  I'm happy to be part of the SCA, when I go to an event, I feel more at home.  Guess some of us have been misplaced out of time, or trying to live past lives.  Heart swollen with pride, Aurore
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: willow taylor
  To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
  Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:12 AM
  Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] SCA slang


  ,
   Greetings to one and all and especially  Marion du Massue,
  House of Brick.
  From Duchess Willow de Wisp One of the oldest members and one of the
  closest things to a founder you will find of this area, principality and
  kingdom

  I don' want to argue about this point but I will tell you a little story
  back when Sir Randall was the Second Prince of Ansteorra. A reporter came
  to do a piece on the SCA and the person showing her around made a point
  of saying that we had created our own language and stressed that we
  didn't call clocks clocks but "magic time pieces" and privies were not
  privies but "shrines of the swirling waters", and cars were "dragons" and
  etc. The piece she wrote about us made us look like idiots. All our good
  work, all our research, all our arts and sciences were discounted because
  we liked to be hokey. We didn't freak her out. We didn't shock her. She
  thought we were just dumb. Most of us were so upset  by the article that
  we dropped most of the really cutesy term out of our vocabulary. These
  term have only recently (in the last ten years) been sneaking back in to
  our speech.

  One of the strengths of the SCA is that we study history. We live
  history. We have reality on our side. Talk to the  role-playing groups.
  We are the people who really fight and are serious about what we are
  doing. We are the people who have ideals and beliefs that are real. Many
  people come to use looking for nobility and beauty and courtesy and
  magic. I have met a lot of people that have walked away from us because
  we seem trivial and frivolous.

  I believe in fun. I believe that Ansteorra can be fun. I don't think we
  have to be self-mocking to do so. It is always easy to make people laugh
  if you make them self conscious about standing around in funny clothes. I
  think the funny words only stresses that what we are doing isn't real and
  it is only a cocktail party in funny clothes. I think it destroys the
  magic. The magic is a hard thing to feel and if one hokey word destroys
  that feeling in one person we are losing so much more than a bunch of
  cheap laughs can give us.

  Willow de Wisp
  > _______________________________________________

  On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:49:15 -0500 "Chuck and Rhonda Leggett"
  <RLEGGETT at austin.rr.com> writes:
  > If I may offer a personal observation, I believe that much of this
  > good-natured controversy is the result of the changing demographics
  > of the
  > SCA.  The Society is no longer a group of (barely) twenty-something
  > college
  > students, though (thankfully!) we still have many of that group.
  > However,
  > the median age has risen over the years, to the point that now the
  > Society
  > has a large content of somewhat older, more mature, more serious
  > players
  > that have more interest in the historically accurate aspects, rather
  > than
  > the fanciful, "playful" attitude of yesteryear. There are those who
  > wish to
  > maintain the youthful attitudes of the "old days" when they joined
  > (We all
  > have a little Peter Pan in us, or we couldn't play).  One extreme
  > sees the
  > other as anal-retentive authenticity Nazis, while being themselves
  > seen by
  > the opposite extreme as childish and giddy.  Fortunately, either
  > extreme is
  > very rare; this is perhaps the most tolerant group of people I've
  > ever known
  > (or known of).
  > For myself, I prefer to use the "proper" terms, but I find the
  > "early
  > Scadian" dialect amusing at worst; certainly not offensive.
  > For example, when someone says "Troll Gate," my old and weak ears
  > hear the
  > word "Toll Gate."  It never occurs to me that some infidel is having
  > a
  > fantasy attack  After all, there's limited space in Bedlam; not
  > every
  > "special" citizen can be "kept safe!"
  >
  > Enough.
  >
  > Ever in service,
  > Marion du Massue.
  > House of Brick.
  >
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