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Mare vs. Gelding

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:04 am
by Cameraman Jenn
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:12 am
by lucimay
i cannot believe you started a thread about this. :lol:

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:51 am
by Waddley
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:16 am
by lucimay
you detail people. :roll: :lol:

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:28 pm
by Fist and Faith
Heh. Didn't notice.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:30 pm
by DukkhaWaynhim
It could be a mutilated African horse - a gelded mare?

dw

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:59 pm
by bloodguard bob
He calls the mare "herself so maybe he thought gelding refers to a female pony. There is no term for a young female horse.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:52 pm
by DukkhaWaynhim
Minimare?

dw

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:24 pm
by Farm Ur-Ted
Maybe she had a sex-change operation. It could happen. They had some pretty good surgeons in Genebackis.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:47 pm
by Waddley
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).

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:53 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
Ha Ha Ha! Count me in Wadds!

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:13 pm
by Fist and Faith
bloodguard bob wrote:There is no term for a young female horse.
Isn't that a filly?

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:32 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:42 pm
by Holsety
Good catch Jenn. BTW did your wings always change color? Somehow I managed to ignore that until now.

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:13 am
by Sorus
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:29 am
by Cameraman Jenn
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:46 pm
by Farm Ur-Ted
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?

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:08 am
by drew
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.