CJ's gestures.

Leanne Riding riding at TIMETEMPLE.COM
Sun Mar 28 19:05:09 UTC 2004


That's neat. A lot of people still make a small pinchy gesture when they 
talk about anything small; I know I have. I wonder what the soft smooth 
gesture looks like?

>  
> Frank White (some of you know him) and he turns 90 this spring. His dad 
> was a butcher in the Fraser Valley, coming from the Ottawa area in 
> 1890. He spoke the Jargon fluently and Frank knows quite a bit too. He 
> was looking at the lexicon in A Voice Great Within Us and kept finding 
> words he remembered, saying that many of them were accompanied by hand 
> gestures. Tenas, for instance, went with a small pinchy gesture. 
> Klimmin was accompanied by a soft smooth gesture of the fingers.
>  
> Theresa Kishkan
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