[NR] Results from the NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING SURVEY

[Lucais du Belier]

Registerability?  I thought we were just coming up with a regional name.
Did we register "northern, southern, coastal, etc. regions"?  Are regions
even considered branches that can be registered? 

Lucais

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From: northern-bounces+lucaisdubelier=pcsok.com at lists.ansteorra.org
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Behalf Of Jennifer Smith
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:30 AM
To: Northern Region of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
Subject: Re: [NR] Results from the NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING SURVEY


On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Cameron Lewis <okrabbit at cox.net> wrote:
> Romance languages are not being ruled out and any translation in any 
> language was welcomed in the process.  We spoke about translations in 
> a meeting last fall and that is where we run into problems.  Calontir, 
> someone remembered as meaning heartland from a song or something 
> (maybe someone with better knowledge could help out here) and so we 
> would not be able to register another translation of that for a region 
> name.

Point of order: if we're talking registerability, the translation doesn't
matter for purposes of conflict. Sound and appearance do, yes.  I think the
objection raised about Calontir was just pointing out that if we chose a
name that meant 'heartland', that we'd have two 'heartland' areas right next
to each other. :)

More importantly, the name has to be in a documentable period style pattern,
which is unfortunately where many of the proposed names fall down... just
because you can translate a few words into a language doesn't mean the
*pattern* is a period one! To quote from the Rules for Submission, "for
example, there is a pattern of using the names of kinds of animals with
-ford in the attested English place names Oxford, Swinford and Hartford. A
case could be made for inventing a similar name like Sheepford."  But not,
you see, for Busyford; "busy" might be descriptive of the ford, but isn't an
animal and thus doesn't match the pattern.

-Emma
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