CJ's gestures.

[David Robertson]

It would be really great if someone videotaped an interview/elicitation
session with Frank.  Then this could be shown to other elders with
knowledge of Jargon.  Maybe this way we could unearth some knowledge of
the 'sign component' of Jargon that's been so often mentioned.

--Dave R.


On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:05:09 -0800, Leanne Riding <riding at TIMETEMPLE.COM>
wrote:

>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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