[Ravensfort] Fwd: [Ansteorra] Job descriptions

L T ldeerslayer at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 12 10:41:05 PDT 2005


This came across the Ansteorran List...
thought ya'll would be interested in it
(posted with permission of the author)

Lorraine

--- Jay Rudin <rudin at ev1.net> wrote:

> From: "Jay Rudin" <rudin at ev1.net>
> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Ansteorra] Job descriptions
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:17:23 -0500
> 
> > What is wrong with the term "troll"?  I always thought it added
> > a bit of style or panache to have a "troll".  It's so far from
> > mundanity.  And I work troll at every event for Namron.  And I
> > happen to think it's a cute term.
> 
> Yes, it's far from mundanity, but it's just as far from the period times.
> The SCA helps us to get away from the mundane, but also helps us to get
> closer to the earlier times.  These words are fine for the first goal, but
> actively bad for the second goal.  All events have people with each goal,
> and we should be trying to serve everyone, not just the subset we agree
> with.
> 
> Words like "troll", "autocrat", "feast-ocrat", etc. would not be used (for
> that purpose) in a medieval or Renaissance kingdom.  They say, "I'm playing
> a 21st century game."
> 
> We can be creative fantasists and invent new modern words to make the
> medieval commonplace sound weird, or we can be creative anachronists and try
> to live in a different time.
> 
> The term "troll" doesn't bother me because I'm not in persona when signing a
> waiver and paying a fee anyway.  The words for the event steward and the
> chef don't bother me on an event announcement.  But calling the
> "feast-o-crat" into court feels like a movie in which Theoden, on his white
> horse, rallies the troops by calling out, "All right, actors, wave your fake
> swords and pretend that we're charging into battle" instead of giving a
> battle speech.  Or King Arthur dubbing Lancelot and saying "I proclaim thee
> for purposes of this movie a knight."
> 
> I call it my sword, not my piece of rattan.
> I go to a revel, not a happy hour.
> I refer to Ansteorra, not the Texas-Oklahoma region.
> 
> And for the same reasons, I'd prefer to talk about the head cook rather than
> the "feast-o-crat".
> 
> Others can disagree, and that's fine.  We don't all have the same goals, or
> the same intensity.
> 
> But for my goals, the word "event steward" is as helpful as a cover over my
> ice chest.  It's not required, and I won't tell people they have to do it,
> but I'd prefer to cover the modern stuff, and I'll try to persuade others to
> want to do so too.
> 
> Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
> 
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