danime91

Ouch, man. That pun made me experience physical pain. Like a knife to the language processing center of my brain.

So I'm currently planning out a fanfic, and I got to thinking about the various pun-tastic names that ponies have for their cities, such as Las Pegasus, Canterlot, Manehattan, etc. Now the fandom has come up with names of their own for more distant lands, like Stalliongrad, Neighpon or Japony, and such. That got me to thinking about endonyms, which is basically what a country's name is in that country's own language. For example Germany isn't Germany in German (lol), it's Deutschland. Japan isn't Japan, it's Nihon, China is Zhongguo, and Korea is Hangook. So I was wondering if any bilinguals here could suggest names for cities and countries in their native language as well as any words in the corresponding language that pertain to horses. The Chinese and Japanese word for horse is "ma", the French word for mane is "crinière". Things like that. I'm a bit of a language buff, so I wanted just that tiny little extra attention to detail of having countries with punny names that work in their own languages, rather than just having be some sort of English pun. So if people could just list a bunch of words in different languages, good ones being gallop, hoof, mane, pony, horse, saddle, horseshoe, neigh, whinny, etc, etc, along with some notable cities. Fruit and vegetable-based puns could work as well, considering we got Appleoosa.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. Also, if you want the cheese you'll have to speak to my muse/manager. Welp, you heard him, folks. No cheese, I guess. Sorry.

My Favourite Mane 6 Pony: Twilight Sparkle How did you find MLP Forums?: I am well-versed in the ancient, venerated art of Google-fu. How you became a fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: I first heard in the deep, dark places of the Internet about a crazy new show with top-quality animation and excellent writing, so I looked up the first few episodes to see what all the fuss was about. That was back in 2010. I've been hooked ever since. After lurking on fimfiction and reading several fanfics (My Little Dashie being the first), I got the crazy idea of producing my own piece of pony prose. So I decided to join this forum in order to have a place to discuss MLP fanfic writing tropes (Human in Equestria becomes a pony! The advantages of first person vs third person! Pony language and terminology!), learn what prevalent theories exist in fanon (were Celestia and Luna born to alicorn parents, or were they somehow willed into being by the great Faust?), and generally bounce ideas off other bronies and get some advice/critique. That and just generally squeeing over new episodes just like everyone else. Anyway, I look forward to interacting with you all and generally getting myself more involved in the brony community. Brohoof, and cheese, for everyone. /) PS: Luna is best princess. :comeatus: