[MR] Public use of the term "medieval"

[Magnus]

On 07/24/2009 07:16 AM, Garth G. Groff wrote:

> At the risk of stirring up the dead horse, something mentioned in the
> posts on the pentagrams has been bothering me. Several people reported
> that some prejudicial civilians reacted to the word "medieval" and
> associated it with devil worship or other nasty things (often called
> "S_t_atanic" here in the south!). Of course, there is nothing wrong with
> this word, and probably most of us it to describe our interests. I'm
> wondering if we wouldn't be better off making a conscious effort to
> substitute "middle ages", or the more complete (but wordy) "middle ages
> and renaissance" in any conversations with those outside our group. In
> fact, we might be wise to eliminate it completely from our in-society
> conversations as well. This might help avoid slips. I realize this isn't
> likely to happen, and it wouldn't be easy, but it is something worth
> thinking about.

I thought this was an educational organization. This sounds like an
opportunity to do just that.