Mare vs. Gelding

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:04 am

Ok, don't know if anyone else felt a total confusion when reading "Deadhouse Gates" and there is a battle sequence in which Fiddler's horse is referred to as alternately Mare and Gelding. I found this so confusing and had to re-read. Gelding=neutered male, Mare=female.

Post by **lucimay** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:12 am

i cannot believe you started a thread about this.

Post by **Waddley** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:51 am

Is that the battle right before they met Mappo and Icarium? When he's on the ground and he looks at his horse's legs and the horse is referred to as a mare?

Yeah, I caught that too.

Post by **lucimay** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:16 am

you detail people.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:28 pm

Heh. Didn't notice.

Post by **DukkhaWaynhim** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:30 pm

It could be a mutilated African horse - a gelded mare?

dw

Post by **bloodguard bob** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:59 pm

He calls the mare "herself so maybe he thought gelding refers to a female pony. There is no term for a young female horse.

Post by **DukkhaWaynhim** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:52 pm

Minimare?

dw

Post by **Farm Ur-Ted** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:24 pm

Maybe she had a sex-change operation. It could happen. They had some pretty good surgeons in Genebackis.

Post by **Waddley** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:47 pm

DukkhaWaynhim wrote:It could be a mutilated African horse - a gelded mare?

dw

We're going to need to start an activist group- MAFG (Malazans Agains Female Gelding).

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:53 pm

Ha Ha Ha! Count me in Wadds!

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:13 pm

bloodguard bob wrote:There is no term for a young female horse.

Isn't that a filly?

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:32 pm

Um, yes. That is correct Fist. Lucimay, I bring things like this up because they bother me. They are paying alot of people good money to catch things like this and they have failed Mr. Erikson. I say fire them and hire me. I'll read for him.

Post by **Holsety** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:42 pm

Good catch Jenn. BTW did your wings always change color? Somehow I managed to ignore that until now.

Post by **Sorus** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:13 am

Missed that one, though that sort of thing usually jumps out at me.

Editors aren't what they used to be, which is a pity. My theory is that they are sometimes replaced by spellcheck. Not that it can't be amusing; there's a scene in one of Glen Cook's books where a character gets kicked in the groan.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:29 am

Ugh, that would make me crazy. I guess I just think that anyone who is editing high profile writers should catch really basic crap like that.

Post by **Farm Ur-Ted** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:46 pm

Sorus wrote:Missed that one, though that sort of thing usually jumps out at me.

Editors aren't what they used to be, which is a pity. My theory is that they are sometimes replaced by spellcheck. Not that it can't be amusing; there's a scene in one of Glen Cook's books where a character gets kicked in the groan.

I'm on book 3 of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn right now. Those books have a lot of typos. My favorite to date is when Jiriki is called Jirki. I wonder if he does crank calls?

Post by **drew** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:08 am

Sorus wrote:there's a scene in one of Glen Cook's books where a character gets kicked in the groan.

I Hate getting kicked in the groan.

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Mare vs. Gelding

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