Fergus Barratt

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This is what I’ve called the “First Speaker Problem” — a focus on the freedom and feelings of whoever started talking to the exclusion of the freedom and feelings of whoever is responding.
Our Fundamental Right To Shame And Shun The New York Times
We don’t have a consensus on how we reconcile the interests of speakers and responders, and we’re not making a serious attempt to reach one.
Our Fundamental Right To Shame And Shun The New York Times
This is a common error with nomads, assuming they just ‘wander.’ Instead, tribal groupings of various sizes had territory they controlled and shifted, typically in a regular seasonable order
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part II: Subsistence on the Hoof – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Mongols could keep going by opening a vein on their horse and drinking the blood for both nourishment and hydration
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part II: Subsistence on the Hoof – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
meat could be placed between the rider’s saddle and the horse’s back – the frequent compression of riding, combined with the salinity of the horse’s sweat would produce a dried, salted jerky that would keep for a very long time.
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part II: Subsistence on the Hoof – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
While Mongolian horses know to dig in the snow to get the grass underneath
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part II: Subsistence on the Hoof – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Consequently, unlike the Steppe, where we have a fairly ‘set’ system that had already been refined for centuries, all we see of the Plains Native American horse-based subsistence system is rapid change
Collections: That Dothraki Horde, Part II: Subsistence on the Hoof – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry