New name, same old me!

It's the first part of "Ginevra Francesca Pallucchini". If you want to know how to pronounce all that I'll explain when I see you on the 24th!

While on the subject of pseudonyms, I've always wondered how is "Mitake" is pronounced, about it's ethnicity (Japanese?), and which is her real name & which is her 15th C. personna name.

Could you enlighten?

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Only if I can call you "Scotch".

Lessee.... actually, no one (in a reenactment setting) should be calling me by my first name except my female peers- AM & Jenn. Everyone else should be using some form of formal address, such as "Madame", or "Madonna", *including* my husband. If you read period correspondence, even married couples are very formal with each other--at least on paper. This it true right up through the 1930's or 40's in this country.

IMHO, we Americans are too informal, and it's difficult to make this point with everyone, and -much to my disgust- I'm usually addressed as "Gwen". It is interesting to note that many foreign languages have a "formal" tense that is used with people one doesn't know, and people older than oneself. I kind of like that formality, myself.

Oh well. Maybe forms of address might just be the next step for the Red Company!!

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Originally posted by JeffJ:
While on the subject of pseudonyms, I've always wondered how is "Mitake" is pronounced, about it's ethnicity (Japanese?), and which is her real name & which is her 15th C. personna name.

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Mitake is my real name. It is Japanese but not a standard Japanese name, i.e. it was made up by my pragmatic Japanese mother and my new-agey American father. The kanji for it is beautiful bamboo. I'm really bad at phonetic spelling but try me-TAH-keh. The way my mother taught Japanese pronumciation is that each vowel represents a syllable, all vowels are short, and do your best not to stress any syllable or if you have to stress one make sure it isn't the first.

Growing up with a name that caused substitute teachers to pause and read out just my last name lead me to choose a simple and English name for re-enacting, hence Anna Ridley.

1. You create your persona
2. You figure out what you persona would know in the way of skills and such.
3. Customs and manners dictated by social status. How you address your superiors, how you address your peers, how folks on the same social level but who are not your intimates address you. And how those beneath your station address you.

Would definitely add a level of "life" to an encampment. Bob and I were kicking this one around recently as I am working on grounding my persona.

I call my page a "young lout", or "insolent lout", or just plain "Rubin", as the occasion warrants.

I refer to Jeff as "Sir Tristan" when speaking to others, "your master" when speaking to Rubin, "The Captain" when speaking to the men and as my "lord husband" when referring to him to the public.

I call the men by their first names since I outrank them, unless of course I'm abusing them for their laziness or stupidity. Then "lout" works for them too.

Lessee- I address female members of the public as "Madame", or "Mademoiselle", and men as "Master". I try to avoid "my lord" and "my lady", as (I feel!) it has been overused by other groups. Children are "young master" and "young mistress", and I thoroughly enjoy watching them squirm with delight when so addressed. Kids are so accusomed to being spoken "down" to that the reaction one gets from addresing them deferentially is amazing.

It would be interesting to see how far off I am. Does anyone have any real information of forms of address?

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IMHO, we Americans are too informal, and it's difficult to make this point with everyone, and -much to my disgust- I'm usually addressed as "Gwen".

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I'm guilty, and I'm very sorry if I offended you. It is how you sign your name, and how I thought you wished to be addressed. I can't do better, though, until you tell me your preferences, which I will be glad to observe.

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It is interesting to note that many foreign languages have a "formal" tense that is used with people one doesn't know, and people older than oneself. I kind of like that formality, myself.

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Which would mean you should call me Mr. Hurley, which would make me uncomfortable entirely. Please indulge me if you will, being called in the familiar by a handsome young lady makes me much happier than being reminded at every reference of my dottage.

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Oh well. Maybe forms of address might just be the next step for the Red Company!!

Gwen [/B]

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Please let me know how that goes. It may be one of the many nails in building the structure that will some day be the Company of St. Olaf.

Oi can call tha 'Granther' if Tha loiks Meester Hurrley, and tug ter lock fer thee. Must shaw respect fer th' ancients.

(I believe 'cheeky monkey!' would be an appropriate response....)

Oh, and I was of course whining about familiarity in a reenactment setting ONLY- I'll answer to just about anything in real life, although vularity usually warrants a good wallop!

"Oh well. Maybe forms of address might just be the next step for the Red Company!!"

Wow, I've got it easy! In only have to remember one form of address. Since I outrank everybody except my wife, I can call them all by their names!

Neato!

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Cheers,

FS