Luna's Talk Show

Goodst morning Equestria! Thist ist thine faithful Princess Luna speakingst! We havest a very important visitor inst our studio todayst!
"Oh hey Luna."
"That wast our visitor, Vinyl Scratch! Nowst Vinyl, couldst thy tell us more about thine life ast a DJ?"
"It's cool, I wake up at night, do my DJ-y stuff, and go to bed."
"Couldst thy explain thist "DJ-y stuff" thy speaks of?"
"I go to a nightclub, play some music, get money."
"Money? What great thing couldst thist be?"
"Uh, bits?"
"Bits? Ast in a smallst amount of something?"
"No..the coin."
"Whast mighst a coin be?"
"Aah...I have a lot of work to do."

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[BronyGirl]

An introductory blog post to a fanfic I'm writing. You like?

[Blaze Spectrum]

366072 I look forward to it.

[BronyGirl]

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"Thankst thy, Blaze Spectrum, forst thine kind comment onst our blog post!"

[RainbowDoubleDash]

EARLY MODERN ENGLISH: A ROUGH GUIDE.
The episode "Luna Eclipsed" actually did a fairly good job with early modern English, so I feel that we, as fans, should put in our best effort as well. So, I'm going to just leave this here as a helpful guide.

CONJUGATING VERBS
Generally, -st for second person singular, -th for third person singular. Thus:

I speak we speak
Thou speakest ye speak
He/she/it speaketh they speak

"To be" and "to have" are, of course, irregular:

I am we are
thou art ye are
He/she/it is they are

I have we have
thou hast ye have
He/she/it hath they have

"THOU" VERSES "YOU" and "YE"
In early modern english, thou is the second person singular none. So, it's "Thou art," not "you art" when referring to a single person. When referring to multiple people, instead use either "ye" or "you" ("ye" is more correct).

"Thou" takes different froms depending on how it's used in a sentance.

Thou ("Thou art noble," "likest thou jelly?")
Thy ("Thy boots are tall," "Thy words are kind").
Thine ("Thine own words were...")
Thee ("I thank thee," "Pray thee, accept my apology") (Note that "pray thee," basically meaning "please," was often shortened to just "prithee," i.e.m "Prithee, accept my apology").

Ye is used like plural you in all respects other than second person plural ("Ye are kind," but "your actions are kind"), probably another good reason to just use "you" instead. Ye never means "the," the phrase "Ye olde shoppe" is just plain wrong, unless you mean to say "Your old shop". But don't add extraneous letters; early modern English spelling is by and large identical to modern English.

So, bearing all this in mind, your dialogue should instead be:

Good morning Equestria! This is your faithful Princess Luna speaking! We have a very important visitor in our studio today!
Since Luna is talking to multiple people (all of Equestria), she uses "ye" (your) rather than "thou" (thy).
"Oh hey Luna."
"That was our visitor, Vinyl Scratch! Now Vinyl, couldst thou tell us more about thy life as a DJ?"
To be absolutely correct, "that was" should really be "that be," as this is how an early modern English speaker would write
"It's cool, I wake up at night, do my DJ-y stuff, and go to bed."
"Couldst thou explain this "DJ-y stuff" thou speakest of?"
"thist" is not a word. Simply adding an -st or a -th to the end of a word doesn't make it early modern Enlgish
"I go to a nightclub, play some music, get money."
"Money? What great thing couldst this be?"
"Uh, bits?"
"Bits? As in a small amount of something?"
"No..the coin."
"What might a coin be?"
Here might be a good place to use some archaic request such as "Prithee, what might a coin be" or "pray tell," or somesuch
"Aah...I have a lot of work to do."

Also, just on a side note...at least on Earth, we've been using coins since Croesus, around 570 BC, or more than 2500 years. I don't see why this would be different for ponies. Luna should know what money and coins are and be familiar with the idea of using coins as a form of transaction, even if she isn't familiar with a "bit," much as how someone from 500 years ago wouldn't know what a "euro" is but would certainly understand the idea of using coins as a medium for barter

(And for the record, coins were in continous use throughout Eurasia since their inception, there was never a significant period of time wherein people would look at a coin and not know what to make of it)

[BronyGirl]

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Why do you think I don't know this already?