RE: [Mid] Re: Using your persona name

The other day I picked up the phone at work and quoted a system ...after
consulting for a while, the customer asked my name, at which I replied,
"Constance...Oh, my...uh...that was weird, my name's Kate."

I was SOOOO embarrassed.

Constance Fairfax (MKA Kate Penney)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Mestern [SMTP:atllantia@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 1999 11:06 PM
To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
Subject: [Mid] Re: Using your persona name

Well, at my first event last October a gentleman asked me my name. My
reflexes lead me to respond with my mundane name. A minute or two later I
realized the mistake, but said nothing and turned bright red on the inside
(I hope). My saving grace is that my mundane name is not only period, but
multi-national 8*)

I have not done the same since, which is a feat for a teacher-in-training
who is horrible with names. Although, joining the SCA should help in
remembering two names for one face as it is common practice to have foreign
language students to "adopt" names from the target culture.

Emma de Lyons
(Ann Mestern)
>Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 17:58:14 PDT
>From: "Jonathan Thorn" <courtbard@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mid] Using your persona name
>
> >Anyone have anctidotes from when they first started using their persona
> >name?
> >
> >Lyonnete (Marie)
> >
> >From: Marie Lillian Vibbert <mlv4@po.cwru.edu>
>
> Well as far when to start using a persona name, I say right away. I
>did
>because I wanted to get into the spirit of the re-enactment which I
>couldn't
>fully do with everyone calling me by my mundane. The other reason is, it
>gets everyone use to it and they had to bacause my mundane fits in period
>exceptionally well (Jonathan Thorn). For those who got introduced to me
>before I got the name, they keep getting confused. Since Jonathan is so
>period they want to introduce me at demos etc. that way. So now I have to
>get them a memory device.... J-eans: J-onathan , K-ilt/ K-eltic (and yes
>it
>originally was spelled with a "k", the Keltoi) tunic: K-enneth. It's
funny
>now because when we go to demos and they call me over or introduce me you
>can literally see some of my friends saying, "And now we introduce to you
>our resident bard......(mouthed but not spoken...) jeans: jonathan,
>kilt/keltic tunic....) Lor....uh Laird Kenneth who will talk to you about
>music. :)
> Of course then we have those hoples....uhm special cases like our
>Baroness, Mistress Alphia whom we're charging 25 cents per time she
>introduces someone by their mundane name. I have to say the barnoy isn't
>all that rich so she must be improving.
>
>
> Kenneth Ulric Amhranai tan Briongloid (Oh and picking a name like
this
>one, you need to get them used to it right away because you and only YOU
>know how to pronounce it correctly and even then you aren't always sure.)
>:)

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