belly_dancer
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Moon, I take the opposite approach. I love learning as many commonly used names for moves as possible, so when I get into forums like this, I can "speak local dialect". I can also pass it on to my students, who may take workshops elsewhere or move somewhere out of state, and will be prepared for the naming craziness!
eeekkk MY brain just doe NOT work this way..... actually IN person when I SEE a step & I KNOW what step we are talking about whether or not it has the same name.... then I like it for reasons you state above T.D (& I do pass on to my students other names I have heard for the step I am talking about).... but when I am reading a description on line.... then I am not SURE what the person is writing about so I hesitate to think it is a step I know as (fill in the blank!)... or even if they use a NAME of a step that I call by the same NAME... is it REALLY the same STEP????? I guess it is just harder for me to translate a written description into a picture in my mind...