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GuerrierCosmique

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  1. I always prefer films in their original language version, and if I can't understand it, then I use subtitles. In my opinion, dubbing a show removes much of the original intent. What does remain of an actor's work if you remove his voice? Though, if I watch TV or go to the cinema, then I have to watch foreign films in dubs, because all of them get dubbed in my country.
  2. How can PIZZA be a vegetable? That's just plain dumb...
  3. German and technically, Malay, but I learned only very few of the second one and forgot almost everything.
  4. In real life, it's Alexander the Great! From fiction, it's Helenos Astropaidion from my own sci-fantasy universe, La Mondo Fantasta de Antanika Astropaidion.
  5. Ponefratoj (lit. 'pony brothers', Esperanto) Fratres Caballionum*² (lit. 'brothers of the ponies', Classical Latin) Hippophiloi (lit. 'horse friends', Ancient Greek) Kleinpferdbrüder*³ (lit. 'small horse brothers', German) Fréres de poneys (lit. 'brothers of the ponies', French) *² could also be equus, a word which is better known. Highschool students learn during their first Latin lessons. *³ German also uses pony, a kleinpferd ('small horse') is taller, between a pony and regular horse, but it sounds more German.
  6. I love Babylon 5! It's my favourite TV show after MLP and Adventure Time!
  7. It's is very funny, but after a few episodes it becomes a bit boring because the plot always follows exactly the same principle. I like running gags, but this show nearly only consists of running gags.
  8. Yes, I live in Europe and the Duck universe is my favourite media franchise. <3 I'm a Barks purist. To me, only Cark Barks' stories in the German translation of Dr Erika Fuchs are canon, the rest of it is more or less entertaining apocryphia.
  9. I was totally disappointed by it. The movie can't stand up to the double-episodes at season starts in any way.
  10. Personally, I don't see anything wrong here. Were I live, it's very uncommon to have such a huge age difference in relationships, but it's neither illegal nor really frowned upon. At 14 years, you're not a child anymore, so this isn't pedophilia.
  11. Well, the Brony fandom surely is past it's prime now. It's best days were back in 2012. Since 2015, it's continually going down. But otherwise, everything rises and falls.
  12. Was G5 proven to be right? I thought it was just a hoax.
  13. Well, I was born with tan/brown skin and I'm content with that.
  14. I prefer to wear classic leather shoes and boots. Today, the postal service has delivered my newest new pair. Brown country boots made in UK. <3
  15. Does somepony here speak Esperanto?

  16. Classical Antiquity, the French Revolution, both World Wars and the 2000s.
  17. Though I'm a fan of many media franchises and fictional universes, MLP:FIM is still the best to me.
  18. Saluton "ponefratoj"! Does somebody here speak Esperanto? Currently I learn it. That's an artificial language created in the 1880s by Dr. Ludwik Zamenhof to serve as world language. He lived in a city with Poles, Russians, Germans and Jews and thought that many conflicts arose due to the language barrier, so he got the idea for an international auxiallary language. It's created to be as simply as possible to learn, while still having the precision and subleties of complex natural languages. It's special point are the same endings for all words of a grammatical category, for example, nouns all end in -o and adjectives in -a. With those endings and certain a-, in- and suffixes one can create neccessary words from word stems, so the number of words you actually have to learn is quite low. "Poneo" means "pony" and "frato" is "brother". They can easily be melted into a compound noun, like in Greek and German. The -j is the plural marker, like -s is in English and French, while "fratino" (the suffix -in is for the female gender, as it's used in German) means sister (literally "female brother"). The word Esperanto itself means "the one who hopes", esper- is the word stem for hope (it's taken from several Romanic languages), while the suffix -ant (from French) is for "people that do something", and then comes the -o to make it a noun. "La espero" (la is the definite article, just like "the" in English) means just "the hope" while "espera" is "hopeful". You can create whatever words you want, like "spacbatalanto", my ponysona's name Space Warrior (spaco = space, batalo = fight, -ant = the one who does something, -o = ending for nouns) or "planedestrino" for "female ruler of a planet" (planedo = planet, -estr = boss of something, -in = female gender, -o = 'cause it's a noun). "Doktoro Esperanto" was the pseudonym under which Dr Zamenhof published the first Esperanto book (Unua Libro aka The First Book). He called the language just "La Internacia Lingvo" (The International Language), but since that's a bit long and generic, the name of the book's author became a synonym for the language. He choose that name because he hoped that his creation would one day become the global lingua franca. "Global" means that all people on the planet learn Esperanto, to use it in international situations, like as a foreign ex-change student, on a vacation or when reading a translated novel. Dr Zamenhof never thought of Esperanto to replace other languages. It's a point of critic that modern-day English is used in non-English speaking countries in situations where it isn't neccessary and many fear that a world language would totally destroy diversity. But Esperanto wouldn't. Esperanto gained a lot of attention shortly after it was published. Millions of people in all of Europe started to learn it. There were congresses and clubs all over the continent. It could have become a world language. Unfortunately, this changed because World War Two. The Nazis hated Esperanto because Dr Zamenhof was a Jew. Adolf Hitler called it a Jewish secret-language for world domination in Mein Kampf. The Nazis banned Esperanto, closed all clubs and murdered many Esperantists. Dr Zamenhof's family was targeted for extermination. After the Second World War the rise of the United States as global superpower lead to English as de facto functional world language. But English is not international - just like Latin isn't Vaticanian - , it's imperial, since it's only so popular because the British Empire once ruled the seas and the United States are so dominant in politics, economy and culture of the Western world since World War II. But who knows what's going to happen in the future. Another constructed world language (that never became one) was Volapük, created by the German Catholic priest Johann Martin Schleyer after the had a dream where God told him to create a world language. It's name means "world speak", vol means world and pük is speak, both where taken from those English words, in fact nearly all words where derived from German, French and English. Volapük was a bit popular after it's publication, too, but Esperanto replaced it. Menade bal, püki bal - Eine Menschheit, eine Sprache - One humanity, one language Interlingua was an international auxiallary language that was used for diplomacy during the Interwar period. It has an extremely simplified grammar and takes all words from Latin and Romance languages. The most recent project for a real world language is Lingwa de Planeta. People at a Russian university work on it since 2010, it's based on the most wide-spread languages in the world. There are also lots of artistic languages that belletristic writers create for fictional worlds. The Elvish tongues Quenya and Sindarin from J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion) and Klingon from the Star Trek TV series are the best-known examples. Those three can be used, but most others have only fractual grammar and a restricted vocabulary, so they can't be spoken. But that doesn't bother somebody, since it'd be useless except at SciFi/Fantasy cons.^^
  19. Merry Hearth's Warming Eve to everypony!

  20. Disney ™ is a prototype for a "megacorporation" as known from Cyberpunk science-fiction, like f.e. Shadowrun. More I don't dare to say, if they feel offended they could sue me send death troops to me for trademark infringement for writing the name "Disney ™ " without permission.
  21. Illustrierte Griechische Mythologie-Enzyklopädie by Guus Houtzinger Yoko Tsuno: Le trio de l'entrage by Roger Leloup 47 Ronin by Stan Sakai
  22. It's my favourite currently running animated show together with the new DuckTales (and MLP, of course). Besides, I have a little crush on Marinette.
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