SC - Why "Request for documentation" is a bad subject title

[Charles McCathieNevile]

On the contrary. I think that the usage should be changed, so it is 
common to assume that a request for documentation is simply that, rather 
than an attempt to justify my lycra scabbard.

One of the things that disturbed me a bit when I first started reading 
this list was the cavalier attitude to doing things in a period way. I am 
often guilty of anachronism in the activity I call re-enactment, but I 
regard it as one of the major sins, with ignorance or (far more rarely) 
lack of resources _sometimes_ being a mitigating factor. (But then, I am 
guilty of other things I regard as pretty bad too. Not being perfect is 
no excuse to aspire only to mediocrity.

Charles/Ragnar (On reflection I think I'd pay 2c to be allowed to say this)

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, david friedman wrote:

> My first reaction when I saw the title of the post that started the mashed
> ...  thread was disinterest--more precisely "here is someone else who wants
> a medieval excuse for what he has already decided to cook." At it happens,
> I was wrong--it was clear that the poster actually wanted a medieval recipe
> fitting his vague memory of one he thought he had heard of. But
> "documentation," in SCA culture, quite routinely means "evidence that X,
> which I have already decided to do, is period," which rapidly degrades into
> "might possibly be period." Hence I think "request for a period recipe for
> ...  ." would be a more appropriate locution.
> 
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
> 
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