SC - Feastcrats

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:

> actually, its not so hard. Just as I've styled myself Maitresse rather than
> the usual Mistress, I have styled myself cuisinier rather than feastocrate.
> Everyone who knows me knows that I prefer the term Maitresse, but there's
> occasional slips (by folks who dont know better), and I just shrug them
> off. Funny, OTHER people will often correct their friends!

I've had similar experiences, in a way. I've had fairly little luck
getting people to simply use my name in a formal setting, without an
honorific title, which in my case would properly not be used at all, or,
failing that, would have the title "Magister" added at the _end_ of my
name. My friends do correct people, but half the time they do so
incorrectly. At least they try, I guess. Old habits die hard.
 
> Use it yourself and you'll find that others will begin to use it in
> reference to you. We use the term that sits in the front of our brain, and
> that's usually the one you heard last, or in my case, the one coupled with
> my name (I'm not just Anne-Marie, I'm Maitresse Anne-Marie to some, ie they
> have just made my name longer)

Off this list, people tend to call me by the part of my name that occurs
first. It's funny how when you meet new friends you can have a better
effect on what they call you. The old friends who were around when my
name and persona were conceived, and who bothered to learn the whole
thing, seem to have the most trouble. They looked really confused when I
was called before Court this weekend and the King called me by the name
I prefer to use. Maybe if the King calls me Adamantius my old friends
will too...
 
> For the possible confusion of the term cuisinier, I usually explain when
> asked "it means head cook in medieval French". That way the term
> "feastcrate/Feastocrate" doesnt even enter their shelllike ears, and so it
> never even comes up.

Agreed, with knobs on! I have always espoused Cuisinier or Kitchener,
its English equivalent. But I honestly don't feel strongly about what
term is used, as long as it describes somthing real in period, and not
some cutesy made-up thing. I am many things to many people, but cutesy,
never. Cute, yes. Cutesy, no. 

Gideanus Tacitus Adamantius Magister Laureatus,  Architriclinus and
Kitchener, darnit!
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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