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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