[Hellsgate] "My lord", "my lady"

[Robert Ruiz]

Master Tivar,

I was curious, did you have to look at the OP? :-)

Timur
 

 “If you want to know the measure of a man look at the shoes he wears“                                  

  Aristotle Onassis


On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Chris Zakes <dontivar at gmail.com> wrote:

At 02:57 PM 9/12/2012, you wrote:
If I may intrude with a bit on titles?

(snip)

One of the ways in which the SCA is an improvement on period is that
we do NOT generally have the insanely proud insistence on recognition
of rank, title, and precedence that they had in period.  More: in my
experience, the higher-ranking the SCA person, the less they care.
So don't worry about messing up titles for people with rank.
For example, if you mladied our lovely Baroness Myfanwy, or mlorded
Master Tivar or Duke Kein, I would be surprised were they to even
mention it and utterly astonished were they to take offense.


Not likely.

Funny story about that: I'm a Court Baron, among other things, but rarely wear my coronet unless I'm at court (and not even then if I forget, or it's cold or hot and a hat is a better choice.) I was at an event some years ago and had put on my coronet for court. One of the folks at the event noticed and started apologizing because he'd been calling me "Don Tivar" rather than "Your Excellency" all day.

I had to explain that if I'm not wearing the symbol of my rank, I can hardly expect people to be psychic enough to know all the stuff I've got. (Heck, half the time *I* don't remember all the awards and titles I've accumulated in the past 37 years.)

       -Tivar Moondragon
Court Baron, Pelican, Premier White Scarf, Star of Merit, Lion of Ansteorra, Sable Thistles in Costuming and Rapier Research, Queen's Glove of Ansteorra, Queen's Grace of Atenveldt, Queen's Blade of Honor from HRM Cateau, Queen's Rapier, Order of the Halberd and the Order of the Dreigiau Bryn of Bryn Gwlad, Order of the Sable Comet, Circle of the Ascending Star, and Champion to HRM Tessa of the Gardens
(In case anyone is keeping score. <G>) 
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