Mingo proves to me, again, that my buttons are too easily pushed.

[bertana]

BIRDS are not RAMPANT. Never, not EVER. The posture doesn't exist for birds.


RAMPANT also does not mean FIGHTING.


Rampant means: a four-legged vertebrate rearing up so that its weight is balanced solely on the near hind leg. That is ALL it means.

Comments

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

yeah but things like "at full respect" and "affronty" are kinda fun ones too.

[bertana.livejournal.com]

Well, of course they're fun. They're also correct bird postures. My only hangup is that the specific word/definition RAMPANT cannot be applied to birds. At all. Ever.

There are positions that are visually similar, but they aren't rampant. It's one of my major heraldry semantics hangups.