It hadn't taken Stag long to come up with a solution to the problem of understanding Butters, but now he was more confused by what the translators said he was saying.
"What do you mean he 'want fight fuzzy tails'?"
Rover shrugged. "He's speaking like a week-old pup, I'm doing the best I can!"
Stag sighed.
He had come to the conclusion, based on the patterns he detected in Butter's "speech", that he was speaking some form of Canid, and had called Rover, Fido, and Spot to serve as possible translators.
It turned out that, for whatever reason, Butters WAS speaking Canid... a primitive, derived form that puppies often spoke when first learning how to talk, and Butters had modified it further so only a few things were ever direct, but everything else was more descriptive. For example, he knew the word "tree" and he knew the word "hair", but said "tree hair" instead of "leaves".
It was somewhat frustrating. Stag threw a blanket over the alicorn's head, and Butters was asleep in an instant.
This isn't working. I need a different approach.
He began formulating the plan for how to deal with Butters' language barrier. It would be time-consuming, tedious, and frustrating... but he would do it.