[Ansteorra] High Personna
mikea
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tue Jan 22 11:34:21 PST 2008
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:02:28PM -0600, Jay Rudin wrote:
> Troy Bertram wrote:
>
> >I agree with you 100%. I try to act in a way that my 12th century persona
> > would. My problem is that I am too much of a mushmouth to articulate the
> > way a 12th century persona would. Something I need to work on... :)
>
> Then be a 12th century mushmouth. You can't have a persona who is more
> articulate than you are, any more than you can have a persona of a person
> who fights better than you or be a shoemaker if you don't make shoes. It
> is *not true* that all of our forebears were fancy talkers.
Robin's right: there were all types among our ancestors, just as there
are now among us. My ancestors appear all to have been small, fine-
boned, wiry, dark-headed, and brown-eyed. I'd be out of place as a big
blond Teutonic bruiser heavy fighter, but I fit right in as a musician
at the court of Mary Queen of Scots. Good thing I _like_ (well, that's
a very pale description of my feelings) music and can do it passably.
Each of us has to choose within the limitations imposed by life and
circumstance.
You could be a 12th century mushmouth who's working on the impediment
according to a plan set out by your teachers' after they studied the
classics. To do this, walk around with some (small, clean) pebbles
in your mouth, working on speaking clearly despite them -- like
Demosthenes, who became a most famous orator and statesman despite his
early speech impediment.
You don't _have_ to be (only) the above person, or have that as any
part of your persona, but it's one possibility. It's up to you to look
for others. Good hunting!
--
Mike Andrews / Michael Fenwick Barony of Namron, Ansteorra
mikea at mikea.ath.cx / Amateur Extra radio operator W5EGO
Tired old music Laurel; Chirurgeon; SCAdian since AS XI
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