<div dir="auto">I really like the current up/down system for (a) remembering which role I'm dancing (b) signaling which role to others</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2017 11:49 AM, "Bob Morgan via Callers" <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Angela reminded me of a point I've been thinking about for a while. Why not right palm up, left palm down? This would be symmetrical and role neutral.</div><div><br></div><div>Bob</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Angela DeCarlis via Callers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">When I called at PICD (the Portland ME dance), I really enjoyed using Jets and Rubies. One silly thing I enjoyed any the terms during the beginners' lesson was coaching palm direction based on the terms: "Jets' palms face up, towards the sky; Rubies' palms face down, towards the ground."<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And yes, I realize that *both* are gemstones and that some feel strongly that we should steer away from the "airplane" association, but it did make for easy teaching. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jets and Rubies is also more forgiving for callers new to gender-neutral language, since the terms are so linguistically comparable to Gents and Ladies. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That all said, I also like Larks and Ravens fine. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Happy calling, everyone! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Angela</div></div><div class="m_8184536039486345596HOEnZb"><div class="m_8184536039486345596h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 18, 2017 11:30 AM, "Aahz via Callers" <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.ne<wbr>t</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Not that Portland, the other Portland. ;-)<br>
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I personally would prefer to settle on "larks" and "ravens" because that<br>
seems to have more traction -- but it doesn't matter as long as we get<br>
away from "bands" and "bares".<br>
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