RE: [IceHorses] Re: tolt-was Bits and Leverage

2007-06-30 Thread Karen Thomas
>>> 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 ph

RE: [IceHorses] Re: tolt-was Bits and Leverage

2007-06-30 Thread Karen Thomas
*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 w

Re: [IceHorses] Re: tolt-was Bits and Leverage

2007-06-29 Thread pyramid
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 term