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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Build A Village: Lordsmiths and wordplay
« on: March 09, 2013, 09:16:54 am »IIRC, feral can also apply to creatures whose ancestors were all tame. Of course, if I'm remembering wrong that means that there's a different word for wild horses*, which helps my case.QuoteThat's what the word feral means.Actually, the word feral implies a domestic animal that has become semi-wild. Fully wild creatures are not feral.
*One kind of wild horse, at least. It's not like the browts are the only sub/species of their kind, anyway.
And presumably there are some genetic differences between browts and packbacks.Quote from: GWGMustangs are horses. They're a subspecies of horses. There's a genetic difference between a mustang and any other horse race/breed. Differences are small, but they exist.Yeah, I don't think we should alter the name when we just tame it. We could alter the new when our domestication results in a genetically different subspecies. (Ie, differences between dingoes and dogs, as wel as mustangs and other horses. The one is a subspecies of the other)How different are mustangs from horses?
Mostly this is becoming a problem because press often wrongly uses the word Mustang for any wild horse, which is not correct.
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