We need to recultivate our love of eccentrics. In UK, at least, there was an honoured place for them & we forgave them their idiosyncrasies
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I would hate for us to lose this in our current culture of offence and requirement to know one's place in a social pecking order.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And not only one's own place but everyone else's too & give them their due as well as keeping up with approved terminology.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I could actually write an essay making a comparison between this & the complex etiquette required under feudalism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
A couple of years ago, we were studying the etiquette of 16th century letter-writing & all the information available if u know where to look
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Did they waste any paper? Paper was expensive. Wasting it was a way of showing superiority so offence could be taken if an inferior did it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
How far down is the signature? Right below body of the text?, Similar social status. Far below? An inferior showing deference.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Interesting. Though...wouldn't an inferior "showing deference" be wasting paper thus causing the offence from your prior tweet? (serious q)
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Replying to @partking7
Yes, kind of! That was what was interesting. Seeing how people balanced this. Also depended on how much lower they were.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I looked at a letter from an estate manager to his noblewoman employer. Completely different class so he had to do both.
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Wrote in tiny writing with words and lines close together & then his name touching the bottom. Space looked big but wasn't really.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
A member of the nobility writing to the monarch could & would waste paper coz that was a compliment but signature still much lower.
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