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

[Keyna]

Danial will you please contact me off list.
Thanks Keyna

On 9/12/2012 2:57 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> If I may intrude with a bit on titles?
>
> As a Star Principal Herald noted years ago, "How do you refer to
> people without awards of arms?  By their names."  "Milord" and
> "milady" [1] were not titles in period.  So it's not really correct to
> word it like "Dear, would you go get my mug back from m'lord
> Billy-Bob?"  He's just "Billy-Bob".
>
> "Milady" and "milord" [1] CAN properly be used in direct address if
> you don't know their rank, or if you know there's no armigerous award.
> So if you're talking TO Billy-Bob yourself, it's fine to ask "M'lord,
> may I have my mug back?"
>
> 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.
>
> In short: don't sweat titles, but I'd like to ask that people not use
> "milady" and "milord" as if they were titles.
>
> Daniel de Lincoln (Just plain Daniel is fine by me.  Lord Daniel is
> OK: I have an AoA.)
>
> [1] In all of its variants: "milord", "milady", "m'lady", "m'lord",
> "my lady", "my lord", et cetera.
>