--- In [email protected], Judy Ryder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think we pretty much know that we're talking about > gaited horses and easy / smooth gaits, when we say > gait. > >
I think that is right, I did mention that people around here refer to a lateral gait as "gaiting" (except walking), but I'm just describing what they call it, not really saying anything else. I do think it works though, I don't think anybody gets confused about what it is. I think that the more precise we can be about describing gaits, it's not going to be that exact, just nice to have several catergories, instead of just a few, discussions are much less confusing that way. I like our American terms better than Icelandic terms for gait and this is one reason. Another reason is that they term things like "trotty tolt" where it *might* be "foxtrot". "Trotty tolt" has a judgment with it, that the gait is not right, it "needs to be cleaned up", if we just call the gaits what they are, "foxtrot", "running-walk", there doesn't seem to be any judgement about it. Kim
