Kevin's Watch

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.

i cannot believe you started a thread about this.

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.

you detail people.

Heh. Didn't notice.

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

dw

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

Minimare?

dw

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

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).

Ha Ha Ha! Count me in Wadds!

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

Isn't that a filly?

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.