26 Sep
2013
26 Sep
'13
11:06 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013, James Saxe wrote:
So it appears from the above that CALLERLAB has officially deprecated
use of "See Saw" to mean a left shoulder Dosado for ten years (as of
tomorrow). I don't have a copy of the CALLERLAB Basic/Mainstream
definitions from just before that time, but it seems clear that the
prescribed for "See Saw" would have been (left) gypsy-like in some
cases and (left) dosado-like in others.
Ten years may seem like a long time to younger members of this list,
and to people who first took MWSD lessons within the last ten years,
it may seem like the definitions they learned describe the way things
were from time immemorial. But by 2003 MWSD had already substantially
diverged from "traditional" SD for forty years or so.
Well, I certainly appreciate the history lesson. Memory is unreliable,
of course, but I don't remember ever doing See Saw in MWSD as a left
dosado, starting in 1986 at UCDavis nor the Stanford Quads a year later
(just to nail down the timing and locations more precisely). From what
I can tell, Callerlab seems to be more in the descriptivist camp than
prescriptivist, so almost certainly the definitional changes you describe
followed majority practice that started earlier.
If anyone's curious, I can do more digging into people's memories on the
MWSD side.
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