*i* have to talk to icelanders to talk about my horse. y'all are some
very fine people, but you're not here to tell me your terms for his
gaits, and neither is anybody else who has the least clue what they are
doing. so it's me and the icelandic speakers here in my little world,
and that's
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it is
not enough for us to say well, we've re-defined this icelandic term
to
mean this other thing in english; that will only lead to
miscommunication.
--vicka (about 2500 miles from me to reykjavik;
3000 from here to
I don't really buy that all Icelanders define tolt as all easy gaits.
I heard Gudmar at the Equine Affaire telling the audience that tolt is an
even 4 beat gait, one, two, three, four. How would that fit into this?
I'm pretty darned sure I've heard him mention the single foot support
phase too -
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:02:47PM -, kim morton wrote:
I'm not worried about that at all:), that would be left up to the
Icelanders, not us. Language changes, and that is a fact, otherwise
who knows what language we all would be speaking. I think we are
just talking about which terms
