[Sca-cooks] remove vs course

[David Friedman]

>I have those to say of my 24 years and 10 months of being in the 
>sca, very very very very rarely have I seen the term course used 
>instead of remove.

I've been in the SCA somewhat longer than that, and although I 
haven't kept count I wouldn't be in the least surprised if "remove" 
was used more often than "course." But I'm not sure why that is 
relevant. I thought it was obvious from Huette's comment that she 
knew that "remove" was often used in the SCA to mean "course," and 
her point was that it shouldn't be, since "remove" was not a word 
used to mean "course" in our period.

Two possibilities occur to me.

1. Your point is that people in the SCA wouldn't routinely use it 
unless it were historically correct. I would expect that after 24 
years plus in the SCA you would be unlikely to believe that, since 
the SCA is and always has been a mix of historically accurate and 
historically inaccurate beliefs and practices.

2. You think that what defines correct and incorrect usage isn't 
historical usage at all, but usage in our subculture. That's the 
attitude I sometimes parody as "Of course it's period--we've been 
doing it for years." It's not an attitude I associate with the south, 
but I only spent a few years in Meridies and didn't travel much so 
might easily be mistaken.
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David/Cariadoc
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