SC - Definitions and Examples: Period, Peri-oid and OOP

[Jenne Heise]

> 	Oh, gee, now here you get into the really LOOONNGG conversations about
> what we call what we do.  I'll try to give you a simple definition, and
> others will too, I bet.   Basically, if you can be entirely faithful to a
> specific recipe (some will say this is impossible, since we don't have
> the whole atmosphere, we cannot be entirely faithful), then you can claim
> something to be 'period' or 'in a period style'.   When being creative,
> unless you have a recipe that states specific substitutions, you are
> creating something 'perioid'.  

One of the problems with saying 'it's not period unless we have a complete
recipe" is that you are using the term period in a way that is far more
specific than the way in which a the general scadian would understand it,
and it leads to logical absurdities. For instance, even if we could proved
that they ate raw [insert fruit here], we would be defining raw [insert
fruit here] as not period, but merely periodoid. Furthermore, the
collective intelligence of this list seems to claim that we have no
recipes for plain roast beef, as opposed to made dishes of roast beef. To
claim that roasting beef is therefore not period-- given other sources
mentioning roast beef-- is to step into the dark world of SCAdian
Authenticist Myth.

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again."