[Artemisia] Historical Terms...was...political correctness

[Stephanae Baker]

I was under the impression that we were making suggestions to be  
submitted to someone at the society level. I do agree with you, Lady  
Bethoc, but the fact that we need to change the terminology has been  
handed down to us from the society--along with the new title of  
Kingdom Youth Combat Marshal, and it seems only fair that we submit  
suggestions about what we might like to call the youth combat weapons  
back up the line. If I'm not mistaken, we have one or two people on  
the list who are high enough up in the loop to respectfully submit  
our ideas if they like them. Why should we wait for some other  
kingdom to decide? Adam and Eve don't live there, either.



On Jun 26, 2007, at 4:56 PM, BECKY LEISHMAN wrote:

> snip:
>   snip: Morgan Blaidd Du, said
>
>> Your Majesties, Highnesses, Duke Allan, Baroness Juliana, and Don
>> Maestro Azir, I also petition that "boffer" be replaced with
>> "waster" in ALL of our documents.  We call our rattan sticks by the
>> proper names for real weapons in period, let us do the same for the
>> padded weapons our Pages use.
>
>   Before we change what we call this thing, after all, it is (as  
> far as I know) been called this since the beginning of time.  Might  
> I suggest checking with other kingdoms to find out if they are  
> making the same change?
>   While I fully support using terminology that is more 'period' in  
> nature, we don't want our youth who travel to and participate in  
> combat related activities in other kingdoms (think Estrella and  
> Pensic) to get confused
>   and/or get into arguments regarding the terminology and  
> requirements for said activity?
>
>   My two pence
>   Bethoc
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