Re: [Callers] Walk around, ease around etc.

2016-01-28 Thread Karin Neils via Callers
picture it: a compass on a gimbal on a goat on a boat :-) AND take note that all the many minute turns and adjustments you make in your own eye contact, in your own body, in relationship to your partner, in time with the music, and in the same space as your set - the picture fits.

Re: [Callers] Walk around, ease around etc.

2016-01-28 Thread John W Gintell via Callers
> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:10 AM, kops-and-robs via Callers > wrote: > > My father said it was a tool, maybe a type of drill? I can't remember, > unfortunately. > > Sarah A set of gimbals (rotating supports) are used to support a compass on a goat so that it

Re: [Callers] Walk around, ease around etc.

2016-01-28 Thread kops-and-robs via Callers
;Subject:Re: [Callers] Walk around, ease around etc. The Oxford English Dictionary gives both pronunciations for "gimbal" with the "soft" g first:   /ˈdʒɪmbəl/ /ˈɡɪmbəl/ I followed their etymology trail, and it seems to ultimately come from a word meaning "twin." Ri

Re: [Callers] Walk around, ease around etc.

2016-01-27 Thread Richard Fischer via Callers
The Oxford English Dictionary gives both pronunciations for "gimbal" with the "soft" g first: /ˈdʒɪmbəl/ /ˈɡɪmbəl/ I followed their etymology trail, and it seems to ultimately come from a word meaning "twin." Richard On Jan 27, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Andrea Nettleton via Callers wrote: >

Re: [Callers] Walk around, ease around etc.

2016-01-27 Thread Andrea Nettleton via Callers
Thanks, Delia, for somehow understanding what I meant despite the spate of autocorrects and typos. It is pronounced with a hard "g" as in gill, just to be clear. Andrea Sent from my iOnlypretendtomultitask > On Jan 27, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Delia Clark wrote: > > I agree

Re: [Callers] Walk around, ease around etc.

2016-01-27 Thread Delia Clark via Callers
I agree that a playful name would be a wonderful way to go for this very playful move. I like Gimbal for that reason. Just checking, it’s pronounced “gym-bal” right? There was one other playful suggestion sometime in the past couple of weeks, in addition to gyre, but try as I might, I just

[Callers] Walk around, ease around etc.

2016-01-27 Thread Andrea Nettleton via Callers
What I feel Is missing from these expressions is twofold. One is memorability. We remember things better to which we attach emotions of some kind. A name people giggle or oo ah about is going to stick and be pleasurable each time they hear it. I love the name Mad Robin, as an example of a