Ponies are eerily good at naming their children. Did Fluttershy's parents know she was going to be shy?

I bet there is a pony in every town with a "Naming" cutiemark.

If we didnt have the Cakes' babies to prove otherwise I'd say they wait until the kid starts showing traits before they name them.

Maybe they use magic to divine the basic nature of the foal and name them based on that?

A pony whose talent is naming new foals?

edited 3rd Jul '12 2:37:34 PM by Turtlebutter

@Purple: Yup, that was the idea.

Butter: Precisely!

Btw, I really recommend that fic to everyone here. There is nothing sexual about it, and it is very very funny.

JT, if you PM me a link, I'll gladly read your fic.

@AHR She must be REALLY good at her job.

edited 3rd Jul '12 2:40:21 PM by PurpleDalek

I believe that all ponies have a name given to them when they are born and a name given to them when they aquire their marks. For example, we never see a character called by their name in the show during the flashbacks in Cutie Mark Chronicles. Also, this could be used as a You Called Me X, It Must Be Serious scenario, since only a pony's truest friends can know his or her birth name. Using a pony you don't know or like's birth name is a major insult.

Also, has a pony ever stated that they hated another pony in the show? Because that could play a major part in my headcanon.

edited 3rd Jul '12 2:42:52 PM by SuperGex

And yet calling the CMC Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle seems not only fine and dandy, but nothing changed for Twist.

Due to Twist's scenario, disregard everything I just said. Then again, Twist could've still been picking out her name, and the nicknames used for the other fillies could be placeholders, due to the fact that childhood enemies could misuse the birth name like that as well.

This person is a really fun artist.

edited 3rd Jul '12 2:48:35 PM by SuperGex

Plus there's a lot of ponies whose names could really be seen as not related to anything to do with their talent. Applejack? Well, all the apple family are named off apple products. Pinkie Pie? unusual colour for the fasmily, makes sense they'd give her a name to do with it. Twilight Sparkle: Born during the evening. Rainbow Dash? Rainbow mane and tail.

Not to mention the side ponies, like Junebug or Cheerilee. Heck, to be honest there isn't even that much in the way of super meaningful names for the ponies. The different races just seem to have decent enough naming conventions that, to us, seem like they're very telling. but keep in mind most of our names are based on real words, just very very old ones. So at one time human names may have been akin to pony names.

Weird request time.

If you had to come up with two-person Elemental tests a la the original quest for the Elements of Harmony, which had to be bested by two people using the element simultaneously, what would you use?

I always thought Cheerilee is called Cheerilee because she is very cheery and happy.

I'll just drop a link to it here; saves me the trouble of P Ming it to a bunch of different people. It was actually a lot of fun to write something so ridiculous after spending so much time on character-emphasizing stuff.

@ keg

Yeah you're right. Blacksmith, Cartwright, Shoemaker...

@Apple: While surnames are more obvious, I actually meant given names. think about it: All names have a meaning of some sort, right? Why would we say they have a meaning if they were not once the word for what they mean? The progression of language has likely simply turned what were once real words into memories, but since we use them as names they persist even if their original use was lost.

Of course even then there are some pretty obvious ones. Names like Robin, or Asher, or Brook.

I'd like to think that a pony could change their name quite easily if they wanted to. Heck, Pinkie never uses her full name. Stuff like Diamond Taira though is pure Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. She was named like a little princess, treated like a little princess, and her talent appears to be bossing ponies around, like a little princess.

edited 3rd Jul '12 3:04:34 PM by PerpetualLurker

Hehe, that was a pretty fun fic!

Her special talent is jewellery making. She forged that tiara with her own four hooves.

Anyone see the Spider-Man cosplayer at Bronycon?

@ Drenius

You read it?

I haven't seen anything regarding brony-con, least of all the spiderman cosplayer. Was he good?

Yeah, I did. So silly.

To be honest, I was afraid it was going to be a tad sleazy based on the title, but was glad to see it was just some good fun.

edited 3rd Jul '12 3:22:32 PM by Drenius

Here he is

@ Drenius

Hilariously silly.

@ Gex: Oh, 60's Spider-man. Meh. -_-