[Ansteorra] Things we do that are not period

[Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace]

Salut cozyns,

I disagree with your handlers. "OK" is just the latest colloquial short 
affirmative. Ben, d'accord, bastante bien, bene, yup, right, all right, und 
so weiter. I'm okay with okay. As far as I'm concerned, OK is no worse than 
any of the other Twenty-First Century English I hear at events from would be 
10th Century Norseman or Siecle Quatorze Francais. For quotidien matters, 
most of us simply have neither the time nor the inclination to faithfully 
reproduce the Babel of languages that would be necessary to re-enact all the 
times and places we're supposedly re-enacting.

Now, I'll admit that I find some words a bit grating: cool, dude, dis, and 
so on. I've come to accept, however, that if it's part of your everyday 
speech and you're not engaged in heraldry or a court presentation, you're 
probably not going to notice that you slip them in.

lo vostre per vos servir
Meser Lyonel
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Micel yfel deth se unwritere.
		--AElfric of York




>From: JOHN KELLER <wolfgangvonsachsenhausen at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." 
><ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Things we do that are not period
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Here is a "Period no-no" we are all guilty of committing, simply because of 
>how entrenched it has become in our Mundane culture - saying "OK."
>
>   OK (okay) is actually an American slang that came about in the middle of 
>the 19th Century and quickly came into use throughout the world.  We say it 
>automatically probably dozens of times a day.
>
>   I was first "scolded" on saying OK at Scarborough Faire, where our cast 
>"handlers" cringed every time we uttered it.  So now I find myself trying 
>to say "Right!,"  "alright" or "ja!" in its place.  Pick the word from your 
>culture and period that means "yes" or "alright." Try it-it is NOT an easy 
>habit to break.
>
>   In Service
>   Herr Wolfgang von Sachsenhausen
>
>
>elizabeth at crouchet.com wrote:
>   Camping!
>
>For much of the period we study and in many of the cultures being outdoors 
>at night was a scary and dangerous thing.
>
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