Talk:Houyhnhnm

message: I've removed the following:
:(i.e. human skin)" 
in the context of:
:Gulliver himself, in their company, builds the sails of his skiff from "Yahoo skins" (i.e. human skin). 
Yahoos aren't really humans. They're closer to humans (than Houyhnhnms) anotomically, and I suppose we could call them hominids, but they're not human. 
Maprovonsha172 23:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Weren't they said to have been descended from a wrecked ship? Nik42 18:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: During the council meeting, there was speculation to the effect that they were descended from a shipwrecked crew, but this was the Master speculating based on similarities between Gulliver and these creatures. --64.81.228.9 00:17, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Yahoos humans?

message: An editor apparently inserted a cryptic reference to the Planet of the Apes films at the end of the article without explanation or citation.  I have removed it.  If the editor cares to explain and cite, I invite him or her to restore and expand the remark. Robert K S 09:43, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Planet of the Apes

message: Houyhnhnms have a stable, calm, and rational society.
Ha! BreathingMeat 23:53, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pun

message: Is their name a reference to the sound horses make? 76.126.29.36 (talk) 22:33, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Every word in their language is like that, because that's the only sound THESE horses can make as well. 64.233.227.21 (talk) 20:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Is it possible that the Houyhnhnms - despite their non-humanoid appearance - are related to the Vulcans from the Star Trek-universe?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.141.225.38 (talk) 20:15, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're kidding, right? 64.233.227.21 (talk) 20:55, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Vulcans

message: The article distinguishes between the course and vulgar Yahoo, and the Houyhnhnm's, with their "stable, calm, reliable and rational society".  It is implied, in my view, that the difference is between bad characteristics of humans, and the good.  But actually the horses are not good.  Quite the reverse. Their pursuit of reason results in evil.  It is not more appropriate to say that the Yahoo represent the emotions and animals instincts of humans, and the Houyhnhnm's the rational - neither being necessary good or evil.203.184.41.226 (talk) 06:44, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Descriptions 

message: This article was flagged for non-notability, without explanation, in January this year. I've removed it because it is frankly ridiculous. A search for the term 'Houyhnhnm' returns over a million hits, the very first being an entry at the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Gulliver's Travels is widely studied in English, as are individual concepts within the book, so the charge at best reflects an unfamiliarity with English scholarship.
The tag for further references is fair enough, so I have left that;  Google books has a stack of books, essays, articles and other mentions for anyone with access to a decent university  library ( I don't). Moonraker12 (talk) 12:03, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability?