<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Agreed with Jeff totally, on both points. I teach role swap workshops periodically, and palm direction is the single best indicator of role there is. Ties, bands, pins, etc aren't nearly as versatile or useful, especially when you intend to switch roles mid-dance. Because of that, I'm pretty religious about teaching palm direction early and often.</span><br><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">(Good question, though!)</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Kaufman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff.t.kaufman@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeff.t.kaufman@gmail.com</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">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="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><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" target="_blank">callers@lists.sharedweight.<wbr>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.ne<wbr>t</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_-1152990162476275816m_8184536039486345596HOEnZb"><div class="m_-1152990162476275816m_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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