[Callers] another new word idea

Andrea Nettleton via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Mon Jan 25 13:55:14 PST 2016


You all are tickling me every which way today!  Mome raths and slithy toves, raths and toves.  :D which is which?
Andrea

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> On Jan 25, 2016, at 12:49 PM, David Chandler <chandler.dr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Jabberwocky, as in:
> ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
>       Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
> 
> I'm not sure dancers will appreciate being called "slithy toves," though we have been looking for new terms to use to describe dancers in different positions. Perhaps the other position could be "mome raths" as in:
> All mimsy were the borogoves,
>       And the mome raths outgrabe.
> 
> Raths and toves?
> 
> David
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Andrea Nettleton via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>> I love this!  And it has a playful kind of sound, despite its technical origin. :-) reminds me of jabberwocky somehow...
>> Andrea
>> 
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