A pony and a walrus traveling around busting myths? Sounds good.

That doesn't surprise me as his username was tailored to the content of his first post.

They haven't worn swimsuits at all in the show.

Does anyone else think of Celestia and Luna when reading the beginning of The Walrus And The Carpenter? It's like a reverse Nightmare Moon.

Jaime pony would constantly wear shirts and hats so you never quite know what he is.

edited 23rd Jul '13 8:04:48 AM by kegisak

And Adam would constantly make jokes about how he's an alicorn.

No! They're not wild! People ride them there! I don't think you really get wild horses in Africa. And the zebras stick to preserves.

Interesting. Do they also like toast?

Yeah, it'd be a bit weird if they were wild, but I mean, I don't think wild horse were native to North America. It's possible the dutch brought them over and they just kinda hung around.

Assuming the dutch even had horses. I know very little about Dutch history. OR south african for that matter, considering I think of it as a dutch colony but I'm pretty sure english is one of it's national languages

Horses were brought to America by settlers, and eventually they integrated themselves into the landscape. I think there are still wild horses out in Nevada or Utah.

@JT: Alicorn walruses.

@Ed: How would that even work?

@Ace: a walrus with wings and a horn. duh.

@Kegi: The Cape Colony was a Dutch colony at first. But they brought a significant number of German mercenaries and French refugees with them. Later, th English arrived and took overand the then Afrikaaners moved into the rest of the country whereupon they had wars with each other. Eventually the country was integrated from four countries into four provinces of one country. As there are more Afrikaaners than English-South Africans, they were in charge during Apartheid. Also, English and Afrikaans were our official languages. After the end of Apartheid, the provinces were reasigned so we had nine and the official languages expanded to include Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. Though our motto is in Xam. Other languages commonly spoken here are Fanagalo, Lobedu (Khilobedu), Northern Ndebele (Sindebele), Phuthi (Siphuthi), Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Portuguese, Tamil, Urdu, Yiddish, Dutch, French and German. Though Fanagalo is actually a pidgin. It's the official mining language.

Want to know anything else?

@Crimson: Won't that make them like flying narwhals?

Also Derpi's down for maintenance.

edited 23rd Jul '13 8:53:24 AM by AceOfScarabs

@Ace: nah, narwhals are more like unicorn whales.

Ah.

Well now I'm imagining a Dewgong with oversized false teeth because of you

Wasn't there a narwhal in that MLP tie in novel about sea-ponies?

See, when I hear Dewgong I always think of the Pokemon.

@Sereg: Yeah, how does anything ever get done with all those languages?

I kid, of course. There's probably just one 'practical' official language, like how Canada has french and english but most people know english. Though many jobs are required to know them both. It's actually kinda cool there's that many. I love languages, though I'm sadly not much for learning them... then again, nobody is but toddlers.

Though, I do wanna ask about Apartheid, because you made it sound like the afrikaaners were in charge... I thought the point of Apartheid was that the whites were in charge, despite being the minority?

well they're definitely not mermaids.

edited 23rd Jul '13 9:15:56 AM by kegisak

I suck at language. I was okay at Spanish, mainly because I had about four years to pick up vocabulary and some sense of the grammar. Then in college I tried to learn Greek from scratch and my head just about exploded.

Just learn enough to order lunch.

And ask where the bathroom is.

And 'I'm not buying your shit, so you can fuck off'. You'll need that if you go to Tenerife.

edited 23rd Jul '13 9:34:53 AM by ApplelightLimited

The essentials of life.

Yeah. There are very few people who don't know English here. And the law says that everyone has to be able to speak at least two languages at least one of which has to be either English or Afrikaans.

I suck with languages. French was the first subject I ever failed and I ended up with a D (second lowest passing grade) in Afrikaans. I find linguistics interesting though. And I was pretty good at Zulu back when I was learning it.

No, you're right. But Afrikaaners are the largest tribe of whites here. English-South Africans are the second largest tribe of whites. That said, one of the many ways of enforcing Apartheid was ruling all whites as a single tribe for most purposes while other tribes couldn't join forces. Even the Zulus were smaller than all the whites combined.

Wait... Afrikaans are whites? I figured they'd be... well, native Africans. For some reason I had assumed that was just a term for an amalgamation of different tribes. Like First Nations to refer to various Canadian native tribes, basically.

With this law, is it really lenient on the definition of 'knowing'? Or is it one of those laws that's on the books but not enforced unless it really matters? Like, we have mandatory french classes in Canada until eighth grade, but they'[re useless, so that's kind of an 'official' measure without being an actual one.

edited 23rd Jul '13 9:42:00 AM by kegisak