With all I have told you about the primitive aspects of Breezies, you might easily develop a sense of superiority. What could this tiny stick age species without any magic have above us ponies? In one word: Words.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist. But their language is truly a magnificent example of verbal communication, a precision tool among a series of blunt force objects. Unfortunately I cannot teach you their language in this book as it would simply break this books limits, nor can I properly convey words to you. We simply do not have letters for sounds frequently used in their words and when I give examples, it is simply the closest approximation I managed to come up with.
Breezish has four times as many words than any other language I know of. This wealth of options to say things leads to a very precise and yet efficient sentences. Let’s face it, most of us are lazy when it comes to talking, we like to get every sentence over with using as few words as possible, that is why shortening words is a thing. A more common example is our lacking variation for the word “love”. It can stand for many things, but we only commonly use it for the case of “romantic love”. When it comes to telling your siblings or parents that we love them… We simply don’t. We do not say “I feel brotherly love for you.” Instead, we go down a notch and say “I like you”, although that is not really what we set out to communicate.
Breezish has twelve words for “love”, depending on the kind of love and its intensity. If I wanted to say “I love you, but more as an enhanced friendship rather than me wishing to pursue a relationship with you”, I can say that in two words: “Uuhet Drèughr”.
“Uuhet” is a combined word of both “I” and “you”, which as a rule is again too much to explain here. If you are interested in learning the language, Fluttershy has agreed to teach what she knows every friday night in her shed.
“Drèughr” is a single word meaning what I needed an entire messy sentence for in Equestrian. I think I have made my example, breezish is incredibly precise, so precise in fact that enhancing words like “very” don’t even belong in some breezies vocabulary. The effects of this are enormous. How many arguments have broken out because of simple misunderstandings? How many problems have arisen simply because one couldn’t find the right words to communicate their feelings and then didn’t? Breezies seldomly face such problems, because their language allows for far better expression of oneself, especially when it comes to feelings, which we have a woeful lack of words for.
There are other parts to their speech, as the use of their feelers to accentuate their emotions. I would have really liked to study that, but I faced difficulties with that.
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Watching their antennae bob up and down is just too adorable and I always forgot about writing down my notes.
There is also a divide between night and day in breezie speech, with personal discussions almost exclusively taking place at night. The day, for them, is a busy time, they need to gather supplies after all. In the day, most conversations are about what to do, how to do it, practical things overall. But when the sun goes down it is a common sight to see the light of two breezies at the edge of a village. The circle of light their antennae produce is seen as the highest privacy and stepping into it is a serious offence. At night, breezies talk with their families, resolve issues or discuss with the Frindrö, mentioned in the previous chapter. The fear of waking up the others helps keep the emotions from boiling over as well. I have once participated in such a midnight talk with a breezie. I can safely say it was a magical and one of the most personal experiences I’ve ever had.