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Subject: Re: minstrel: Nature of Bardic Competitions
To: flieg@socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Fred)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:11:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19981005213311.00f24fcc@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> from "Fred" at Oct 5, 98 02:33:11 pm
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>    This is not the competitor teaching you _or_ you teaching the 
> competitor. This is just a requirement for extreme documentation.

Extreme Documentation? Is that like an Extreme sport, or Extreme
Linux? If you don't want to document, then don't. But don't call it
names, either.

>   This is also (imho) entirely too picky for words and an excellent
> reason to go off in the corner away from the competition
> and sing filk (just for the contrast).

Oh, do you mean in-period-style words filked to an authentic song?
What a great idea. Performing can always be done; competitions are few
and can always be ignored.

>   I'm here to participate, to be the hero (of various stripes) in my
> own story, and incidentally to learn, so as to do the others better.
> I'm not here (nor are most people that I know) to go to school and do
> homework assignments, expecially picky ones.

No one said you should. On the other hand, you seem to be saying rude
things about people who do want to do these things. And you still have
a rather amazing quality of judge in mind for a competition. Well,
that would be one way to end them; no judges available...

> And if I'm
> singing a period drinking song, neither I nor my audience _need_ 
> to know anything but that it is a drinking song.

If you are singing it in a competition that requires documentation,
you do need more than that. If you avoid entering such competitions,
then you're right. On the other hand, I might ask you about it later.

-- gb

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