[Sca-cooks] remove vs course

Adele de Maisieres ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Mon Jun 5 20:11:37 PDT 2006


Barbara Benson wrote:

>>Adele de Maisieres > Autocrat is probably the SCA-ism that bothers me the least, but,
>>nonetheless, I prefer "steward".
>>    
>>
>
>The point I was trying to make was that it doesn't really deserve to
>be lumped in with the severely post-period and flat out made up terms
>that are in such prevalent usage, such as the aforementioned "dragons"
>for cars and another local term I cannot stand which is "farspeaker"
>for phone.
>

Oh, I quite agree with you-- I think "Autocrat" itself is reasonably 
harmless-- I just don't prefer it.  "Farspeaker" and "dragon", on the 
other hand are loathsome excresances.

-- 
Adele de Maisieres

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