
| dragonSpike #353004 11 months ago |
It gets annoying when people call male foals fillies. They use the term fillies in FiM a lot because most of the ponies are girls. |
| Florentine #353013 11 months ago |
And let's not even get started about that whole 'filly and colt aren't synonymous with foal' thing. |
| Lockstep #353022 11 months ago |
Newborn/"baby": foal
Young female: filly Young male: colt Adult female: mare Adult male: stallion |
| Crobarity #353029 11 months ago |
Then why does Mayor Mare say "Fillies and Gentlecolts!"? Wouldn't she be leaving out the adult females in the audience? |
| Florentine #353043 11 months ago |
Because Gentlestallions is a bit clumsy and it'd be even messier saying mares and gentlecolts.
Colt and Filly are, for this purpose, similar to boys and girls, as mare and stallion are comparable to man and woman. Or would you really prefer we got into the genital-related technicalities of the terms? |
| Florentine #353044 11 months ago |
Bah, I knew I'd mess that up.
mare and stallion = woman and man. There. |
| Heartmend #353087 11 months ago |
Speaking of which, my wife and I had a discussion on what one would call a romantic partner. We agreed that it would probably be "fillyfriend" or "coltfriend", regardless of age. (No one I know introduces their "manfriend" or "womanfriend", but plenty of folks I know have boyfriends or girlfriends!) |
| magique #353326 11 months ago |
While we're bitching about terminology, stop using, "foal," in place of, "fool." "Foal," implies childish, not stupid or ignorant. |
| Anonymous #353339 11 months ago |
It's just a pun, I don't think it matters if it's not perfect.
Calling a boy a girl is a different matter, though. |
| Anonymous #353406 11 months ago |
@magique
If you hate that pun so much, then YOU go tell Nightmare Moon, since she used it in canon. |
| Florentine #353423 11 months ago |
Yeah... foals was perhaps the worst pun in the series.
But I'd rather someone other than I tell Nightmare Moon that >.> |
| Anonymous #353428 11 months ago |
Honestly, it always sounded like she said "fools" to me. She has a strange voice! |
| isthachakena #353529 11 months ago |
Considering how old Nightmare Moon is, she could have been using "foals" literally. |
| Jackarunda #354384 11 months ago |
Lockstep in comment 022 got it completely right, so I don't have to say anything. |
| Homfrog #354821 11 months ago |
What are weanlings then? |
| Anonymous #356102 11 months ago |
child = foal
girl = filly boy = colt woman = mare man = stallion It bug me when people describe BigMac or other adult males as a colt. |
| Florentine #358030 11 months ago |
Ooo, nice angle isthachakena o.o |