[NR] NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING POLL

[Tadhg]

Greetings,

I have to disagree with that proposal. I see no compelling reason for throwing away over a year's work because some of the names might have difficulty in passing.

Emma's chief criticism (and she can correct me on this) was to not reverse engineer the documentation. Don't get a name you love, force it through some exceptional test of validity, and be disappointed in its failure. That, of course, would bring us back to starting all over again.

Also, take note of the fact that Emma pointed out at least 3 of the top 15 that could easily be registered...everything else just takes more work.

As for Finnacan's list of conceptual items, most of the names were put together with meaning and rational construction...although we should research German and Scandinavian structures as well.

Cassius is asking for the list to be polled at August populace meetings. That gives us heralds the month of July to work on weeding out the names that cannot be registered from the top spots. By my reckoning, Weisenfeuer will have the first populace meeting on August 1...which sounds like a good deadline.

If any other heralds are interested in researching the top 10 or so names, drop me a line at ld_tadhg at yahoo.com. We can coordinate the results.

Regards,
Tadhg
...brick by brick


--- On Thu, 6/30/11, Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NR] NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING POLL
> To: northern at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 8:54 AM
> In that case, I move we start over
> and clear thhe old list.  People know what sorts of
> names they are interested in.  This is the end of June,
> how about the end of October, we get the local heralds to
> submit the new list of names to the web list, and we work
> from that.  Give it three months, and then we take an
> informal poll to reduce the names to a workable
> number.  If after November there are no more workable
> names, we return to the top names on this list.
> 
> Marc/Diarmaid
> 
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:54:05 -0500
> From: ulfie at cox.net
> To: northern at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [NR] NORTHERN REGIONAL NAMING POLL
> 
> That is a brilliant idea.  I would suggest getting the
> branch herald
> from each group to get together a volunteer list of people
> with
> experience in this type of research and co-ordinating
> through the
> regional herald.
>  
> Why *experience*, some may ask?  For the same reason
> you would not want
> the Crown to be forever after dressed in robes of state
> designed by
> people who volunteer after making one T-tunic and watching
> a bunch of
> Xena. While there have been a few queens *I* think would
> ... well, never
> mind that.
>  
> The point - you don't take the love of your life to an
> amateur.  You
> seek professional help if they mean so much to you.
>  
> Ulf
>  
> On 06/28/2011 02:50 PM, Master Finnacan wrote:
> > This was extremely informative and I'm thankful for
> the time you took to write this. 
> > I'll give Baron Cassius some credit, though - one
> person researching and documentating a name for personal
> submission is far easier and simple than asking hundreds of
> people for their feedback, polling, etc, especially since a
> lot of the names don't pass heraldic muster, despite a
> majority having some research.
> > 
> > I'm wondering if concepts like...
> > 
> > Plains
> > Open
> > Meadow
> > Field
> > Horse
> > Hawk
> > Grass
> > Clay
> > Dust
> > Dry
> > ...etc, should be given to a group of heraldic
> volunteers so that they could come to us with a list of
> names that they have researched, checked for conflict and
> spelling.
> > Then instead of voting on a small group of names only
> to have them rejected, we could go in knowing that our top
> choices are viable.
> > 
> > we might also include a list of name elements we like,
> stuff like... 
> > lund/land,
> > mearc/marc/march,
> > gard/geard,
> > wold/woede/wood, 
> > stuff like that, or merely state a preference for a
> certain language, like Latin, French, German, Norse, Old
> English/Saxon, Irish/Scots, Russian, Italian, Spanish,
> etc...
> 
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