//------------------------------// // This is wrong, Tia! // Story: Little loony Luna and crazy caffeinated Celestia's life in Canterlot // by Vidhwansak //------------------------------// This is wrong, Tia! There were many things that Luna feared. Among those fears, one of them was that Luna dreaded Nightmare Moon coming back to haunt her by keeping a cherry popsicle out of her reach. Another that scared her was watching her sister try to fit into a bikini (she swore she went blind by the sight for weeks). Even more than that, however, was eating fried cabbages (that in particular was the result in trying to save the face of a poor cook who couldn't read recipes correctly, and the result was five days of taking mints to try and get the flavor out of her mouth).These were things that shouldn't even exist! However, what scared her the most was testing; she hated and feared tests! They were nothing more than glorified assignments that teachers gave! Luna even almost went as far as to ban this from schools. Her sister, however, quickly squashed any hope of doing so by explaining that it would destroy the education system put in place. What a pity. Now, Luna found herself groaning as her sister read over the spelling test that she was forced to take earlier, inside a secluded portion of the library. While her speech had vastly improved, Celestia had a few aristocrats that had politely (but bluntly) shown her a few drafts and proposals that Luna wrote after her first public court, and from the looks of it, Luna still needed help on her writing (due to it mostly being in such old Equestrian that ponies today wouldn't be able to read it), much to Luna's dismay. Luna inwardly cringed every time her sister made a mark on her paper, for it meant that there was another mistake that she made and would later have to correct, or even worse, possibly redoing the entire paper itself. She was getting much, much better than she was a few months ago, but she was still struggling with writing at times. Finally, after what seemed to be an eternity, her sister smiled as she capped her pen. "Well, you're doing a lot better than before, Lulu! You still require some help, however." Celestia gave Luna the paper, complete with corrections that she made. "Here you go, Lulu, not much is wrong this time around." Time to see what I've done wrong... Luna quickly scanned over the papers, looking at her mistakes, and immediately she was offended and hurt by what she saw. What is this?! I know I spelt this correctly...And this, too! What is my sister thinking?! She has lost her touch in being a teacher for our little ponies! "Tia! What is this?! Most of these mistakes are of words that I've spelled correctly, explain yourself!" How do I break this to her easily...? "You spelled armor as armour, Lulu, that's no-." Don't state the obvious, Tia! "Yes! That is the correct spelling, hasn't it always been the correct spelling for armour?! And another thing, you circled 'flavour' as being incorrect! That is not so, it is still spell correctly!" Celestia groaned as she rubbed the area around the base of her horn, trying to get rid of the headache that was coming in. And ponies wonder why I only accept personal students and don't teach in classrooms. It's bad enough trying to teach my sister, nevermind preventing Twilight from blowing up half of Ponyville! A class full of ponies that don't understand me as much as my sister or Twilight? No thanks! "Lulu, language has changed a lot when you were...'Gone', and words do not retain the same meanings and spellings like they have before. ...That's...That just can't be possible! Why would this happen?! Surely she jests! "That's a joke if I ever heard one, Tia! Words changing around, old meanings being swept away for newer ones, how much more ridiculous can that get?!" She laughed, and it was only when she realized that her sister wasn't laughing with her that she stared at Celestia with a horrified gaze. Oh no. "What?! I understand words being executed from our vocabulary because of newer, more modern words, but words being altered from their original meaning and spelling?! Why has this happened?!" Heck, even I don't know the answer to that question. "Ponies change, Lulu, and the way they use words has changed as well. I don't know why they felt the need to change what words suddenly mean, Lulu, but that's just how it is." Ponies these days...Changing around words to suit their own needs! Why has this been allowed to happen?! "Can you give me an example of this? This is wrong, Tia!" "Well, one of the words changed is 'cool', which, as you know, once meant that something was not quite cold, but near enough to it. It still means that, but most ponies use 'cool' as a word to express a positive feeling about something. Interestingly enough, there are multiple words for this, as well, such as 'awesome', 'radical', and 'swag'. I'm not actually sure about the last one, though." Luna growled, and banged a hoof through the table (causing the library to sell the table once again for a few thousand bits), clearly agitated by this little bit of news. "You mean to tell me that there are already words that already expresses a positive feeling, yet ponies still seek to create other words simply to say the same thing?!" "...To be fair, Lulu, some words do sound better than others in certain sentences..." UGH! THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST LANGUAGE AND I AM POWERLESS TO GIVE IT JUSTICE! "I give up, Tia! Language today is unbearable and dirty compared to how it was before! Why, I'd almost want to go back to the time where ponies ate each other and spoke in grunts!" Luna stood up, sighed explosively, and walked out, leaving Celestia behind to stare after her. Well, there she goes. Celestia groaned, and looked down at the paper that Luna wrote for her, The tales of the marshmallow flavoured armour, which...Was exactly what the title implied. "I don't even know what I just graded. Oh well, it's tea time."