Talk:Safewords

Hmm... I started a separate page for "kutt". This inconsistency must be resolved, somehow. --Efatland 19:37, 23 April 2012 (CEST)

I suggest that we either merge kutt to this article or keep this one more general on safewords and keep the expanded article in the kutt page. I also suggest we call that article "Cut" even though kutt is the norm, to keep it more coherent language wise. --Johannes Axner 20:09, 23 April 2012 (CEST)

I discovered that the classic break/brake-mistake was made here. Fixing it, but we still have to connect the articles in some way. And how in the world do I change the headline? (I have known at some point...) --ElinN 18:36, 26 April 2012 (CEST)

I also disagree completely with how the safewords are described here. "the players involved must find out why the scene was cut " is the opposite of how the rule is described and used in Norway. We have a policy that nobody ever has to give a reason for cutting unless they want to. --ElinN 18:42, 26 April 2012 (CEST)

Sorry. I beg to differ here. I need to disagree with Johannes Axner. A safeword is better to keep in another language. Also Cut is used in filmdirecting and theatre to stop a scene cause it is boring. I use words in that meaning when directing/GMing Freeforms like Anna Westerlings Growing Up (some scenes needs to be cut at times to avoid the tension just dwindling away - hah) I guess we first need to collect all the different uses (and maybe also make a note on veils and lines from the freeformers of US to relate it to something well known to others ?) I vote for "kutt" as the main page - although I am well aware that I have only 1 vote, like anybody else.

Also ElinN, it´s not a break/brake-mistake - its different practices/differences in larp-cultures. We do not need to correct it. The most clear way is to list the different variations, but explain them only once.

I totally agree with ElinN about the use though. If someone is practicing it, with a need for explanation, that is a totally different practice. We need to clearify that. --Eidzm 18:40, 26 April 2012 (CEST)

And Johannes, I don't agree that it's better to call it "cut", "kutt" is not a Norwegian word mixed in in a weird way, it's terminology. --ElinN 18:48, 26 April 2012 (CEST)

Erlend: I'm not saying you are wrong. But it hadn't struck me that it could be in any other way. Why anyone would use "break" for a slow-dow-safeword puzzles me, it's just confusing. --ElinN 18:56, 26 April 2012 (CEST)

AFAIK "Brems" has been used with just that spelling/pronounciation at a number of Swedish larps even though the Swedish translation would be something else (bromsa?), and "Kutt" has been used at a number of Finnish larps even though the Finnish translation would be completely different. The point in retaining the Norwegian pronounciation has been to mark them clearly as safe-words.

So my proposal is: make an article called "Brems" to describe that word. Rename the "Cut & Break" article to "Safe-words" and list Kutt, Brems and any other safe-word there with links to the more detailed article about the word itself. --Efatland 19:52, 26 April 2012 (CEST)

Yes, Eirik, yes! --ElinN 20:53, 26 April 2012 (CEST)