wow man, so amazing. my horse Brandy was a stallion. I was 14. here's a post I wrote about the majesty of the horse, and how man rebelled in some cases.
Fascinating - I was walking past Boston Common’s Civil War memorial last night and it was to the first African American volunteer contingent. It was late at night and looked again; the Black infantrymen led by a man on a horse, who was white.
It stuck me as a curious sight (it was dark and the monument is difficult to parse as it is) but as though Calvary officer was there to keep order .
I was brought up that way and still use it reflexively as correct, find other usages ignorant-sounding. Ill brought-up and all that. But I have also come to appreciate that this is purely dialectical on my part, and that variant usages from my youth (I am 71) were not only more acceptable than my New England aunts and teachers would allow, but that even standard usage has moved on.
Fight the rearguard action by all means. Preserving understanding between historical eras is aided by slowing rates of change. But it is best to know that we are not really pedants, we are dinosaurs. And no school team has a dinosaur as it's mascot, I don't think.
I reluctantly agree but am still against changes that make language less precise . For example using impact as a verb instead of affect lessens the power of
wow man, so amazing. my horse Brandy was a stallion. I was 14. here's a post I wrote about the majesty of the horse, and how man rebelled in some cases.
https://open.substack.com/pub/riclexel/p/no-more-automation?r=bcx26&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I was under the impression that humans were getting work out of oxen before they domesticated horses. Is that incorrect?
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Fascinating - I was walking past Boston Common’s Civil War memorial last night and it was to the first African American volunteer contingent. It was late at night and looked again; the Black infantrymen led by a man on a horse, who was white.
It stuck me as a curious sight (it was dark and the monument is difficult to parse as it is) but as though Calvary officer was there to keep order .
Just googled it - the colonel was Robert Gould Shaw.
https://www.nps.gov/boaf/learn/historyculture/shaw.htm
Yes, he was portrayed in the movie “Glory” - a must see.
Pedantic note: we lay down in the past and in the present or future we lay plates on a table. To rest we lie down.
I was brought up that way and still use it reflexively as correct, find other usages ignorant-sounding. Ill brought-up and all that. But I have also come to appreciate that this is purely dialectical on my part, and that variant usages from my youth (I am 71) were not only more acceptable than my New England aunts and teachers would allow, but that even standard usage has moved on.
Fight the rearguard action by all means. Preserving understanding between historical eras is aided by slowing rates of change. But it is best to know that we are not really pedants, we are dinosaurs. And no school team has a dinosaur as it's mascot, I don't think.
I reluctantly agree but am still against changes that make language less precise . For example using impact as a verb instead of affect lessens the power of
Shakespeare has a phrase which sounds like man is a horse extender.
"Look, what a horse should have he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back."
https://poets.org/poem/venus-and-adonis-lo-forth-copse
Very interesting research on the domestication of the horse.
What do you think that it tells about the likely date and location of Herding societies?
Do you think herding started among Agrarian or Horticultural societies or something else?
https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/herding-societies
i'm assuming agrarian. they would be more concentrated in mixed woodland zone where there would be fallow land for herds?
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, this makes sense.
Do you know of any research on specifically which Agrarian society actually did this?
I am very interested in the emergence of new society types and have written about them in my Substack column:
https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/all-of-human-history-in-one-graphic
https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/why-you-need-to-know-about-society