SC - scadianisms
Catherine Hartley
caitlin_ennis at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 1 15:02:35 PDT 1999
>As opposed to certain other Scadian neologies that merely duplicate the
>meanings of existing words or phrases, and are in some cases misleading
>uses
>of terms that already have established meanings. Such as "smalls" for
>children, "feastocrat" for chef, "eric" for list, "redaction" for
>interpretation/interpreted recipe, and so on.
>
>Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon
>
Yes, but at least "eric" has an SCA story (history) behind it, as opposed to
just being a word used to substitute for something that doesn't sound
medieval. The use of "eric" is part of the SCA culture deriving (as I
understand it) from the old red ribbon/fabric used to mark the list field
which was fondly called "Eric the Red" by those who used it... It was later
shortened to Eric and extrapolated by others to denote the list boundary
long after the orignal "eric" was no longer used.
Or so I have been told.
Caitlin of Enniskillen
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