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. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
