<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">East coast GF English, to the extent it does anything specific, does left up/right down. West coast does right up/left down.<div class=""><a href="http://lcfd.org/gf-ecd-calling-conventions.html" class="">http://lcfd.org/gf-ecd-calling-conventions.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(I think it’s a really good idea, btw, to avoid the jet = penis analogy. If someone wants to buy me one of these, <a href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3b/75/c1/3b75c16ce2c7c75f0d2e2dbff2f4eff0.jpg" class="">https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/3b/75/c1/3b75c16ce2c7c75f0d2e2dbff2f4eff0.jpg</a> , I’ll promise to wear it at dances that use jets/rubies.)</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">
<div class=""><div class="">Read Weaver</div><div class="">Jamaica Plain, MA</div><div class=""><a href="http://lcfd.org" class="">http://lcfd.org</a></div></div>
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 18, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Bob Morgan via Callers <<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bob</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Angela DeCarlis via Callers <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:callers@lists.sharedweight.net" target="_blank" class="">callers@lists.sharedweight.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">That all said, I also like Larks and Ravens fine. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Happy calling, everyone! </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Angela</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>