>You will never be able to speak Equestrian because they speak

>>30578609
Well, so do niggers but plenty of white people have learned to speak their simple obsolete languages.

>>30578609
>language barrier meme
They speak English retard, they're has never been any indication otherwise. Now their written language on the other hand is visibly.

>>30578633
I suppose the people in Korea who watch the Korean dub also think they speak English.

>>30578637
No they speak Korean, dubs have to modify scripts, meaning the characters and tone are slightly different. Making it a seperate continuity. We are discussing the English voice acting.

>>30578609
How do they talk to griffins and other species then?

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>>30578647
So there are different Equestrias depending on what language you watch the show in? It's much more plausible that there's just one Equestria and all of the dubs, including the English dub, are translations and dubs of the one true language (Equestrian) that they speak.

>>30578656
See, now this is a good point. Maybe they can understand each other but they can't mimic each other's vocal patterns, so they are speaking two different languages on either side.

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>>30578633
The letters look english to me

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>>30578669
They already retconned the written language once; >>30578658 is what it looks like now.

Considering they retconned it once, I don't think the current version is their true written language either.

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>>30578632
Except for Pirahã, all languages have recursion and are equally complex.

And the point is that the human mouth is physically incapable of imitating the sounds that ponies can make, so we may be able to learn the language but not speak it.

>>30578658
>It's much more plausible
Anon... It's fiction. A million different Equestrias is equally likely as a single one, because none of them exist.

>>30578683
There's still just one canon universe, and that's the one we discuss.

>>30578688
That's one totes real brah don't even sweat it /;3

>>30578677
Dungeons and Discord is a pretty recent episode. I think they just using english but the show use non detailed letters and gibberish to fill out the papers

>>30578693
Right the one made by English speakers with scripts written in English.

Is that so, Mr and Mrs Click-Click Dirk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD4f0QhA3UQ

>>30578698
The English scripts and voice actors is an English dub. There are Korean dubs, Hungarian dubs, and English dubs, but none of them is the actual language.

>>30578696
They use gibberish because they know fags are super autistic about every detail so if they put something there they would sperg out.
Kinda like with the where is maddie thingy of halo ads back then.

>>30578609
Equestria doesn't have a language. You know why?
because it's not real

>>30578683
It's actually highly probable that something similar to the Equestria we all dream of exists, somewhere.

They are envisioned and written in English, they speak English. Fuck off with your gay head canon. They already have a shit ton of cultural parallels to us, why is language so hard a pill for you to swallow? You're clearly really good at swallowing.

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>>30578711
They retconned it to gibberish because the show is multinational and they don't want to make it English-specific. That's the point. They don't speak English.

>>30578718
and until it's possible to interact with it, it's functionality non existent.

>>30578609
Do they speak English in Westeros?

>>30578725
>They don't speak English.
you mean write in English

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>>30578730
well, we'll never get anywhere with that enthusiasm, now will we?

>>30578683
>People believe Heaven is real, but somehow, Equestria being real is too far stretched
Really makes you think

>>30578741
>Losing hope because something doesn't exist
You sound like the quitter

>>30578748
I'd tell you heaven ain't real either, but I don't want to be called a fedora.

>>30578609
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZHYK4TLn2w

>>30578609

>clicks

And don't forget about the echolocation. Horses just love to communicate via echolocation.

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I want Twilight to teach me how to read and write Equestrian.

>>30578609
what a nice pony

>>30578775
I want Twilight to teach me wrong as a joke.

>>30578740
Are you daft? The reason they don't write in English is that they don't speak it; they retconned it to gibberish to make it a-linguistic.

>>30578783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d696t3yALAY

>>30578783
>twilight has a unique sense of humor
>anon is transported into treebrary in a magical accident
>he has to learn to read and write in the equestrian functionality
>she teaches him in a...unique way
>asks anon to put his teachings into practice by writing his first letter to celestia
>it doesn't end well

>>30578789
So non English writing is proof that they don't speak English, but them LITERALLY SPEAKING ENGLISH in the source version of the show means nothing?

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>>30578800
The movie 300 was set in ancient Greece and was a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylaeset. The source version was English, but obviously, the characters would have been speaking ancient Greek.

MLP, which is set in Equestria, is the same way.

>>30578832
>The movie 300 was set in ancient Greece and was a fictionalized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylaeset
>fictionalized
That's an euphemism, even the Bible could be considered more historically accurate than this movie

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>>30578609

>>30578837
That's the point. I intentionally did not choose something like The Last Emperor, a historically accurate English biographical film about the last emperor of China, because 300 is fiction just like MLP. But just like MLP, even though it's fiction, it's clear the characters in the movie would not be speaking English; it is an English-language depiction of fictionalized Ancient Greece.

>>30578637
>>30578658
Or the English version is the original, canon version and the dubs are just translations.

Which, you know, is factually the fucking case.

>>30578855
The source version of the battle, is the battle where they spoke Greek(I assume) the source version of mlp is the cartoon where they speak English. Stop being so smug about you fannon.

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>>30578880
But their speaking English is not culturally relativizable.

>>30578609
If they don't speak English, they speak a language that's so close to it as to be essentially a substitution cipher. See quill/quince/quesadilla and germ/worms.

>>30578895
Okay. They still speak English.

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>>30578609
Drawings and handsigns.

>>30578895
Nothing worse then a smug stupid person.

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>>30578915
How will they understand handsigns if they don't have hands

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>>30578959
earsigns

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>>30578946
Ponies should be worldly, not specific to the USA and Canada (not Quebec, though, because ponies speak English).

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>>30578915
I'm at a loss over here

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>>30578632
/thread

post pastebin please.

Magic. I know it sounds like an asspull but if magic can allow time travel and species tf (mice to horse - pone to breezie) regardless of size then this shouldn't be out of the question.

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>>30578682
What the fuck, can somebody give these guys an iq test? The pygmies have a new competitor for being the bottom tier of humanity

>>30578609
Listen now faggot,
World language is english, unless you live in a 3rd world shithole, everyone speaks english in order to communicate across countries, i hate it, but still, now if the ruskies would have won you'd be speaking russian and writing in cryllic, if the germans have had won, you'd be speaking in german, the show has been produced in the landwhale of freedumbs, meaning it's intended language is american-english. now shut the fuck up and enjoy the pones.

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>>30581280
There's a great and fascinating article on them and their language.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/16/the-interpreter-2

>The experiment, using different stimuli, had been conducted with undergraduates and monkeys, all of whom passed the test. Fitch told me that he had little doubt that the Pirahã would pass. “My expectation coming in here is that they’re going to act just like my Harvard undergrads,” he said. “They’re going to do exactly what every other human has done and they’re going to get this basic pattern. The Pirahã are humans—humans can do this.”
>Fitch got all the equipment running smoothly and started the experiment. It quickly became obvious that the Pirahã man was simply watching the floating monkey head and wasn’t responding to the audio cues.
>“It didn’t look like he was doing premonitory looking,” Fitch said. “Maybe ask him to point to where he thinks the monkey is going to go.”
>“They don’t point,” Everett said. Nor, he added, do they have words for right and left. Instead, they give directions in absolute terms, telling others to head “upriver” or “downriver,” or “to the forest” or “away from the forest.” Everett told the man to say whether the monkey was going upriver or downriver. The man said something in reply.
>“What did he say?” Fitch asked.
>“He said, ‘Monkeys go to the jungle.’ ”

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>>30578633
*Equish, and it's the spoken language because being unable to communicate with the beings that control the sun and moon is probably a bad idea.

>>30581404
Koko the literal gorilla had an IQ of what, 80? And knew thousands of hand signals? Could communicate fairly normally, understood spoken English fully, etc., right? And this "human", supposedly on the same level of intelligence as us, who literally cannot think ahead at any type of quantifiable level nor understand the difference between literal and non-literal meaning, is meant to be treated equally. Maybe I should start advocating for gorilla rights, because if >60iq Africans and these Pirahã are considered equals there's no reason why gorillas shouldn't also be.

>>30581788
White boi, the future of America is 50iq pygmies, your gonna learn to take the diversity didlo one way or another.

>>30578609
They definitely speak english canonically. their writing is a mix of english and some other language, kinda like what the japs do.

>>30578902
Fluttershy even said "gesundheid" in accurate german. If they were only speaking "alien" pony language and the show was just translating their language for us then we would hear "bless you" instead.

>>30584566
Gesundheit is an English word used to wish a person good health after sneezing. Most English words come from other languages and gesundheit is one of them; it is a better translation than "bless you" for their alien tongue because, in Equestria, they don't wish blessings on each other after someone sneezes; they wish good health.

>>30578609
Is there any proof of this? I don't think they ever implied that.
I think in EqG it's implied they use the same written language, they use the same alphabet as in the show, so them speaking the same language isn't much of a stretch. Equestrian may sound humanlike.

>>30578609
Gulliver did it.

boop

>>30578609
I think you just gotta assume they speak English. There are just too many turns of phrase and references to reconcile otherwise.

If they didn't speak English, you'd just have to learn their tongue as they'd have to learn yours. Not like you wouldn't be able to create some sort of Lingua Franca anyway, I'm sure you could manage that no problem with the help of the biggest nerd in Equestria. Or just learn their written language.