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Square Dance Language

I am the SD linguist

Germany (like many other countries) is a country with many square dancers who do not speak english at all or not very good (besides others, of course). Therefore it is hard for them to follow a workshop held in english or directional calls.

Many of these dancers want to train their abilities. I have created a program to use a Windows-PC for that purpose by not only showing the words and expressions but also by speaking them (at least when you have a sound card) including the possibility to choose the person who speaks.

Now I would like to fill the database with expressions that are used at workshops or as directional calls. Therefore I would like to have the help of other interested square dancers and callers to collect words and expressions. During phase 2 I would need people from different countries who would volunteer to speak all the words and expressions, either on a tape/cd or on a diskette (*.WAV).

Please help me and send me words and expressions you don't find in the list yet ! Please include the dance program and the context in which this expression is used.

International contacts

I also would like to have contact to people who can translate the program and it's contents into their language (swedish, japanese, dutch, ...?). So please tell me if you would like to help me with that.

Which other countries can you think of where square dance is alive and the mother tongue is not english ?

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Danmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Slowakia
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Tschechia

    Categories

    I will put the expresions into the following categories:

  • Basic
  • MS
  • Plus
  • Advanced
  • Challenge

    Each of these will be separated into

  • Basic knowledge
  • Expert knowledge
  • Formations (= Formationen)

    Additionally there will be the categories

  • Colloquialisms (= Umgangssprache)


    There will be translations, explanations, examples and links to other expressions (like "similar to", "is used in", "is the opposite of", ...).

    You can help me by not only sending me words and expressions but also categorizing these.

    I will (up to now) not include expressions I assume to be too colloquial or which are interesting only for C3/C4 dancers or for historical reasons.

    Joachim (JR) Ruhenbeck
    Joachim_Ruhenbeck@compuserve.com
    Graefrather Str 16a
    42329 Wuppertal
    Germany

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