spoiler Did You Notice (SPOILERS)

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!

 

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In the song "Open Up Your Eyes" Tempest says"everybody" instead of "everypony"

In Equestria Girls that term is very foreign to Twilight. 

Was this just an error that slipped by, or is there more to this?

[Hierok 11,831]

20 minutes ago, Lucid_Nightlight said:

WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD!

 

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In the song "Open Up Your Eyes" Tempest says"everybody" instead of "everypony"

In Equestria Girls that term is very foreign to Twilight. 

Was this just an error that slipped by, or is there more to this?

There is more. Tempest wanted to be free and not like the other pony's. She wanted to be set free. That is why she doesn't use the pony language, as I call it here.

[Izanagi 176]

honestly, the guy who did the .mov series put it very well. theres more races then just pony in equestria, soit kinda makes sense that they can say "Everybody" 

You could also sum it up to the song sounding better with body, or something. Or what hierok said.

[Castle Bleck 19,354]

1 hour ago, Izanagi said:

honestly, the guy who did the .mov series put it very well. theres more races then just pony in equestria, soit kinda makes sense that they can say "Everybody"

 

Just like how we sometimes say "everyone" instead of "everybody."

[Izanagi 176]

3 minutes ago, The Artist Formerly Known As A.V. said:

 

Just like how we sometimes say "everyone" instead of "everybody."

basically.

[Steve Piranha 29,424]

While sometimes ponies themselves say those instead of the pony nouns, those are usually writhing mistakes. Tempest however, spent god knows how many years outside Equestria and meeting non-ponies

[StormBlaze 992]

i think they generalised the lyrics so that it would go farther. Aiming high for that best song Oscar. =3

[Ganondox 899]

I wouldn’t look too much into inconsistencies as the canon is massive with no central reference for writers, but it could mean that Tempest has distanced herself from pony culture. 

Edited November 1, 2017 by Ganondox

[AlbaTross 1,586]

I'm not actually entirely sure about the nuances of how pony pronouns are supposed to be used, as even the show is inconsistent with it but I have my theories.  That the movie spinoff material uses creature pronouns as the PC terms for various species confounds things even further, but it seems that creature (anycreature, somecreature, everycreature) is used to refer to species that aren't ponies.  Granted, the term clearly originates outside of Equestria and we haven't heard it used inside of Equestria so perhaps it's a regional term to refer to all sentient lifeforms in a particular area, which just happens to be featured in the movie.

But, for the usage of pony (anypony, somepony, everypony), it seems reasonable to assume that it only applies to ponies.  One of Gilda's lines in The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone reveals at least the possibility of griffon pronouns, so it's also reasonable to assume there are species specific pronouns.  As pony society generally consists entirely of ponies and no other races with few exceptions, we can infer that these terms are not intended to be racist, although it is questionable that the Mane Six and others use them in the presence of Spike.  

The problem with using pony pronouns in all situations is obvious: it just isn't very versatile when it comes to interspecies relations.  The pronouns we recognize as humans on the other hand, are.  They may be the de facto PC pronouns as creature may in fact be region specific.  Tempest does use "anybody" in her song, closely followed by "in this or any other land", so she's singing as someone who is well-traveled and is clearly using it as a blanket term to apply to relations with absolutely any species. In that context I think she is being grammatically correct.