Fun with technicalities!

[ursula]

Just in case you're not aware of this, the SCA registers names. The SCA guarantees that a registered name will be "unique": of course, the meaning of unique is a complicated issue, especially when we're talking about plausible names for medieval people.

This is a poll about what you think uniqueness ought to mean. This is not a poll about whether names should be unique, nor is it a quiz on the rules as they currently stand; it's a philosophical exercise.

[Poll #1098571]

Comments

[gwacie.livejournal.com]

Or one Stephan von Lübeck, for that matter ;)

I think it's funny that I'm a Herald; because I'm strictly a court protocol herald who doesn't know much of the nuances of this names stuff and can only blazon the most basic of devices. So I marked non-herald on the form ;)

[ursula]

That's what you think! I had four different people lean on me to do court at the last event ;)