[ANSTHRLD] Conflict checking device
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at panix.com
Fri Sep 6 22:30:04 PDT 2002
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, doug bell <magnus77840 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "Per bend sinister argent and sable, in bend two roundels
> counterchanged, on a chief gules three tai-chi."
"t'ai chi". Apostrophes are important.
The charge ...was blazoned a yin-yang on the LOI, at the
submitter's insistence. The term does not appear to be correct.
Yin-yang is the Chinese philosophy of opposing cosmic forces; the
motif in this submission is a yin-yang symbol, according to the
OED Supplement. (The submitter's own documentation refers to the
motif as a ``yang-yin disc''.) The OED Supplement also gives t'ai
chi as the name for this fusion of forces, the Supreme Ultimate
--- but also as the name for the symbol of that concept. (The
martial art characterized as ``low- impact aerobics'' on the LOI
is properly called t'ai chi *ch'uan*.) The term t'ai-chi is
correct for the motif; it's been used in previous SCA blazons; so
long as we register the symbol, we will continue to so blazon it.
(Randwulf the Hermit, June, 1993, pg. 2)
Daniel "'I'm not pompous, I'm pedantic. There's a difference.'
-- new button" de Lincolia
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