[Callers] More substitute terms for the g-word

[Delia Clark]

I, luckily, never get tired of this conversation as I feel that it’s really important and I feel that it is as yet unresolved. I find it heartening and fascinating that we all are still engaged in this, working so hard to find a solution. It’s also one of my favorite moves.

So, that said, I wonder what others think of the suggestion earlier today, “Look-see”. Is it too “twee”? It feels good to me, both descriptive of the essence of the move - eye contact - and easy to say. And I think you could maybe make it meet the noun/verb criterion, with some wiggling.


> On Mar 13, 2018, at 3:27 PM, Ric Goldman - Letsdance via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kalia,
> 
> I independently came up with using kipsie myself on the way down to calling the Palo Alto contra.  I tried it out with dancers before the dance and during the lesson.  The overall response was negative.  2 comments came back as: "You're just trying to not say gypsy, so it's still offensive".  I ended up using right-shoulder round during the dance and got further feedback during the break and after the dance.  Again, kipsey got a bad response, although that may be because it was new.  I think folks are getting a lot of replacement-term fatigue ("what, now this?").   Right-shoulder round seemed to be the preferred term amongst the dancers themselves - they claim to understand it best.  Still, I'm not giving up quite yet.  😊
> 
> (Note, the PA Contra doesn't yet have an official policy banning the g-word.  They leave it up to the caller.)
> 
> Thanx, Ric Goldman
> Portland, OR
> 
> P.S. And NO, Kipsey is not an ethnic slur against people from Poughkeepsie, New York.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Callers <callers-bounces at lists.sharedweight.net> On Behalf Of Kalia Kliban via Callers
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 11:53 AM
> To: callers at lists.sharedweight.net
> Subject: Re: [Callers] More substitute terms for the g-word
> 
> On 3/13/2018 11:02 AM, Martha Wild via Callers wrote:
>> Interesting discussion on the Portland Country Dance Community 
>> Facebook page. Lots of great suggestions. A lot of people really don’t 
>> like “right shoulder round” (I’m one of them). I tried one of their 
>> suggestions last night - Kipsey - and it worked amazingly well.
> 
> I've been using "R/L shoulders around" since it has, at least so far, been preferable to the alternatives.  The big advantage of the word "gypsy" is that it's both a noun and a verb, so you can say "gypsy your neighbor" or "dance a mirror gypsy with your partner."  RSA is more cumbersome and less flexible.
> 
> Gotta say, I really like "kipsey."  A lot.  It's the first alternative I've heard that scratches the same itch as "gypsy" without being excessively twee or hard to say or hard to hear.
> 
> Other CA Bay Area callers on the list, what do you think about this possibility?
> 
> Kalia
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