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    Annalee‏ @LeeFlower 6 Mar 2020

    Annalee Retweeted Jenn Lyons (Pre-orders Are Love)

    I was just talking to someone the other day about the Tiffany Problem (Tiffany was a common medieval name, but name a historical character that and watch what happens). For some reason, wrong historical nitpicking gets way under my skin.https://twitter.com/jennlyonsauthor/status/1235811429250240515 …

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    Jenn Lyons (Pre-orders Are Love) @jennlyonsauthor
    Because the unfortunate truth is there are a lot of useful English words which are perceived as modern (even if that's not the case). I once got called out for using a word that was deemed 'too modern' when it originated in, um, the 16th century. (Hug. The word was hug.) pic.twitter.com/xlZSsCG6dj
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      2. Annalee‏ @LeeFlower 6 Mar 2020

        I used to see this in costume judging all the time - - fellow judges insisting that X or Y "isn't period" and I'd be sitting there like "what the fuck period are you even talking about and also that's an elf costume."

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      3. Annalee‏ @LeeFlower 6 Mar 2020

        I was once working in a code of conduct where we were trying to talk about mansplaining without using the word (long story) and a colleague suggested "corrections that add nothing to the conversation," which is what historical nitpicking usually is.

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      4. Annalee‏ @LeeFlower 6 Mar 2020

        Because for one thing it's often factually incorrect. Darts have been in clothing for centuries. That anachronistic word probably isn't. But also it's about competition, not communication.

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      5. Annalee‏ @LeeFlower 6 Mar 2020

        It's saying "I only respect those who can beat me at trivia, and if you cannot then you must stop your conversation to recognize my superior wit," Except the person doing it is both a contestant and the trivia judge.

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      6. Annalee‏ @LeeFlower 6 Mar 2020

        Also I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure credit for The Tiffany Problem goes to @tnielsenhayden

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      2.  🗽 🧷𝚖𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚋𝚢𝚝𝚎 💫  ⭕️‏ @megabyte407 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @LeeFlower

        I do have a serious question about someone named Kayley in a movie about Camelot though. Kayley is a common Dark Ages name? or nah?

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      3. Tinkering Tailoring Tom‏ @bernaert1776 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @megabyte407 @LeeFlower

        "Recorded in a range of spellings including Cayley, Caley, Calley, Kayley and Kaley, this is a surname of either English, French or Manx origins." Read more: https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kayley#ixzz6FurbjIyI … https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Kayley 

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      2. Iain Roberts‏ @_Iain_Roberts 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @LeeFlower

        Hat tip to Terry Pratchett for the young Discworld witch Tiffany Aching. 😀🧙‍♀️

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      3. Vex: the very model of a modern major gender role!‏ @The_Terroirist 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @_Iain_Roberts @LeeFlower

        But also, Discworld isn't even set on Earth, so matching names with Earth time periods is a bit absurd to begin with.

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      1. a nosy archaeologist (You Can't Reform This)‏ @merovingians 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @LeeFlower @liminally_human

        our theatre group's play about the production of the York Mystery Plays devoted 4-5 lines to this exact problem, as one of the leads was named Tiffany

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