[ANSTHRLD] Conflict checking device
doug bell
magnus77840 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 7 15:42:16 PDT 2002
Consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Look at how this item has been registered.
Magnus
Randwulf the Hermit June of 1993 (via Ansteorra):
Or, in pale a t'ai-chi argent and sable and an aloe vera vert.
Morgan ap Llewellan Peregrine August of 1979 (via Atenveldt):
Sable, a Tai-ch'i, the line of division forming a hawk's head erect, voided,
orbed argent.
Malik the Malicious February of 1999 (via Atenveldt):
Sable, a tai-chi sable and argent, fimbriated Or, within flames in annulo
proper.
>"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)
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