[MR] Public use of the term "medieval"

[Anthony Bryant]

On Jul 24, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Gina Shelley wrote:

>
> If anything, we need to be teaching them better, not agreeing with  
> them. If teaching them is even possible. I would like to hope that  
> the vast majority of reasonably intelligent people who hear someone  
> go "well, the word's mid-EVIL, ya'll, it's got the word EVIL raht  
> there in it!" wouild have pretty much the same reaction that we all  
> would have. Nobody but another idiot is going to take a statement  
> like that seriously.


Yup.


Actually, I'd also e happier if more folks in the SCA could actually  
learn how to spell it and not help people with their misperceptions. I  
can't tell you the number of SCA related posts by SCA folk wherein I  
see "midevil" written.


Effingham