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@rochellaine @seekjustice @catwing

I think I’ll sit out of the wars for the rest of the night. Been pushing myself to crank out the words these past several hours, and I’m feeling not so inspired and motivated now, so I’m gonna leave soon I think. I’ll be on to chat for a bit though. 🙂

@seekjustice Do you mean in horse books that you haven’t seen Americans using those words to describe horses?  Or just in general that Americans don’t describe horses correctly?

Because somewhat depending on the part of the country they’re from, or how they were raised, a lot of Americans don’t know anything about horses.  Or any animals.  I me…[Read more]

@seekjustice I think all those terms are a little confusing for some people (including me, tbh 😛 ), and I don’t think all horse books get it right anyway, so maybe that’s why Americans don’t use the terms that often. 🙂

@catwing

But some people are named Colt.

😛 And my first thought was “Some guns are called Colt”

If we’re doing last sentences, then mine was pretty boring too.  It was

And then Yishay had been there to meet her.

😀

@jenwriter17

Righto. The things I was reading seemed to indicate it meant more generally a horse that hadn’t reached mature age. Here it very specifically means a horse between 1-4. Younger than 1 is a foal, and a female is a filly. I’ve never really seen any Americans use those terms though, which was why I was a little confused.

@catwing Okay, my sentences were all pretty short in the last section I wrote, so I’m going to give two that go together:

“We have not killed your brother, girl.  We speak the truth.”

@jenwriter17 @seekjustice Shall we have another word war?

@valtmy Are you home yet?

@catwing I think I like the idea of choosing our favorite sentences better 😉

@seekjustice

We use the word colt for a male horse that hasn’t reached adult age yet.

@rochellaine @catwing @jenwriter17

And I’m pretty sure I have no interesting sentences, but this one…

This brumby was one of a highly sought after colouring–not quite pure white, but not cream or golden either.

…is a reference to one of my favourite childhood books, The Silver Brumby.

@catwing @rochellaine @seekjustice

oh yeah, my sentence…

I didn’t know if we were doing our favorite sentence or the last sentence we wrote, so i’m just putting here the last sentence I wrote: Vega twisted one of her box braids around her finger. 

I know, gripping isn’t it? 😛

@catwing I like your sentence 🙂

@rochellaine @jenwriter17

Guess what? I got 269. Without eating pizza.

I’m sort of stuck on the details of capturing brumbies though. Exactly how one does it with a horse and no helicopter.

By the way, Jen. Since you are an American horsie person, what does the word colt mean? You seem to use it in a different way to we do.

@seekjustice @catwing @jenwriter17 I got 339 words.  What sentences are we supposed to share?

@rochellaine @catwing @seekjustice

262!

@rochellaine

My guild did not win the last word war though 🙁

@catwing @jenwriter17

Okay, I’m putting my timer on.

@seekjustice oh, yeah the sentence thing sounds fun 🙂

@seekjustice

Oh, really? I was using Scrivener for my last war and my word count was terrible! 🙂

Pizza calls right now, but I’m sure I can eat and type. I need a handicap anyhow.

Oh, really now? @rochellaine I think we’ve been insulted 😛

@catwing

Y’all ready to start your timers? Ten minutes, here we go! 😀

@catwing @seekjustice @jenwriter17 @valtmy Or, as Catwing suggests, favorite sentence.  I have no preference. 😛

@seekjustice @catwing @valtmy @jenwriter17 So are we having a ten minute word war?

Sure, let’s do the “last sentence” game.  🙂

@jenwriter17 I think we all agree that there is no real competing with Seekjustice in terms of how fast we write.

…but we can all dream. 😀

@seekjustice 😛 But Sir Patrick Stewart was bald first, and he was/is considered one of the most handsome men of his time.

@catwing She didn’t particularly do anything…it was more her brother’s fault. …[Read more]

@jenwriter17

I have a secret… for some reason Scrivener counts more things as words than Word, I’m pretty sure.

But yes, I would love another war. Pizza calls right now, but I’m sure I can eat and type. I need a handicap anyhow.

Also, do you want to do that “share the last sentence you wrote” or something like that for some fun?

@Catwing @rochellaine