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@jenwriter17 Okay.
@valtmy @rochellaine @seekjustice Are y’all ready to start? 15 minutes?

@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]

@rochellaine another war sounds good. 15 minutes?
I think we’re doing favorites, but saying or last sentences cause they’re funny. XD
This is great. 😀

@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. 🙂

@seekjustice Okay. I double checked and…
They are called a filly or Colt until over three years of age. But at one year they are yearlings, instead of foals apparently.

@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?

@seekjustice I’m an American horse person… And an American cat person… 🙁 ( 😛 )
Foal – Baby horse under one year (I think it’s one year)
Filly – Female foal
Colt – Male foal
But some people are named Colt. 🙂

@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.

@jenwriter17 I chose favorite. My last was…
But it was big.
Where is my Newberry Medal? IT will probably be rewritten. XP

@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 🙂

I think I do better at 15 minutes. Also I have kitten crawling all over me…

@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 Yeah. I think I heard we beat the last record, though I would have to double check.

@jenwriter17 What was your sentence?

@rochellaine I think we could just share one. *shrug*

I got 146.
My sentence… hmmmm…

Her legs felt like iron beams cemented into the ground as the moss and dirt fell off the dragon rising from its…

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

@rochellaine @catwing @seekjustice

262!