--- In [email protected], "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm with you, Kim. I don't use the word "brokk" when I mean trot....
-------------And there are a lot of folks out there who feel the same. I NOW use mainly english words with Osp. But when we first started working together, she actually did respond better to Icelandic words. She is imported and was "started" in Iceland. So I tried to be at her level when we first started training. We then started using more and more "American" words and we now almost exclusively use American words. > If I'm not sure what gait the horse is doing, or if I'm talking about a horse that is multi-gaited I'm simply saying, "gaiting" or possibly clarify by saying "doing a lateral gait", or a "diagonal gait." ---------------That's exactly what I do. I use the words "lateral gait" or "diagonal gait". If it's clear what they are doing, I try to use the correct terminology, but sometimes it's hard to make that distinction. Dawn B.S. - northern Michigan
