Yup, hello, it's me, back on my typesetting binge again, with another "Every Page a Painting" to show you. And boy oh boy, do I have a real treat for you this time around: one of my favorite novels on this site, one that hasn't been typeset before. . . well, until now, of course.

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Y’all interested in a hard sci-fi story with a language barrier? Chicago Ted’s got you covered!

"And we are absolutely certain that's a settlement? That Rhysling already has Indigenous populations?"

"Yes, Commander. There is no doubt. An engineer can fix the probe, but he would not know how to talk to them."

"Alright. Forget the engineer, then. Get me the linguist."

TThe Children of Planet Earth

• MLP: FiM
• Mystery
• Sci-Fi

An exploration of linguistic xenohippology.

• Profanity
• Human
• Alt. Universe
• Twilight
• OC
• Main 6

Chicago Ted · 156k words  ·  566  43 · 10k views

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Filly Misty chases a bunnycorn. Ponies walk up glowing paths into a tree. A mysterious market inside a distorted spacetime. A door leads to the Land of the Dragons. Magic has indeed returned to Equestria.

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So I'm studying up on Early Modern English (not Old English, mind you) in preparation for a short essay on how to write Luna-speak. Fun fact I found: "derring-do" (the inspiration for Daring Do, if you didn't get that), which is a noun usually meaning "adventurous nonsense" in today's usage (as far as I can tell), started out as a verb phrase way back in the sixteenth century, "dorryng do," which literally means "daring to do," and implied manhood and chivalry ("Robin Hood's awesome. He's

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Greetings!

No, no, no schemes this time! Well... alright, maybe but a little marketing ploy, I need to stay true to my nature!

It is with great pleasure that I wish to present to all the official: Noctraliyar Language Guide and Dictionary, fruit of my labor since the first idea for a batpony story, all those years ago. How time flies...

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New here? Confused by what a Classic Being a Better Writer post is? No worries!

Classic posts dig into a four-year archive of weekly BaBW articles to dig up a couple that are relevant to one another, forming a quick and easy to browse sampling of some of the site's various writing articles.

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English Keyboard Layout
She said: "You're going to the zoo!"

Spanish Keyboard Layout
She saidÑ [You{re going to the zoo![

German Keyboard Layout
She saidÖ ÄZouäre going to the yoo!Ä

Splendiferous. You've probably heard the word before, most frequently enunciated by Pinkie Pie, or the local equivalent thereof.

Because of this, you might, at times, want to use it in a story.

Today, I did just that while writing my latest story, a MarbleMac piece which may-or-may-not be coming out soon, depending on how it goes.

However, I discovered something strange while doing so - Word didn't recognize the word as a misspelling.

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DreamyEevee's doing a Halloween adoptable challenge, with a new OC added every day this month. After seeing the entry for October 16, I knew I just had to make her my first-ever adopted pony--and my avatar! So meet Penny Candy. She's not exactly a ponysona, but she's darn cute!

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*Content Warning* Excessive use of the F word. If you have no idea what the "F" word is kindly click away, don't worry you're not missing anything. I do not wish to corrupt innocent minds.

"Hey human me?"

"Yes pony me?"

"...How do you do it?"

"Do what?"

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So I yeah, my mind kinda broke today. Ended up texting my mother this message today, "Mom, I need to come, I haven't done Shit at all this month. I can't get motivated. Nothing has truly been making me happy. I feel like shit all the time, my blonde ache I have constant head aches. Nothing tastes good anymore. Art, games movies me happy. I'm tired all the time. I know I don't want to die but at the same time i don't want to live. And I can't answer the question what do I want to do in life,

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Another entry to the Not-a-Contest!* To quote the story description: “Sam Winston is a small-town K-9 patrolman faced with some unexplained, and potentially lethal, events. Fortunately, he has backup... a very unusual kind of backup...”

TSpecial Operations

• MLP: FiM
• Adventure
• Drama
• Slice of Life

Sam Winston is a small-town K-9 patrolman faced with some unexplained, and potentially lethal, events. Fortunately, he has backup... a very unusual kind of backup...

• Violence
• Death
• Human
• Twilight
• Other
• Tempest Shadow

Lets Do This · 10k words  ·  301  5 · 3.3k views

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It literally just means 'normal'.

In fact, there's no need for 'cis', since we already have many terms to sum the concept up nicely:
Normal
Genuine
Natural
Biological
Healthy
Standard
Norm
Default
Regular
Intended
Real
Actual

Those words can simply be place before terms like:
Gender
Sex
Man
Woman
Male
Female
Person
People
Body

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I love being normal, I mean transphobic.
Math is also transpho-
Oh wait, I forgot, math is racist.

The Latinx Movement is dripping with "American" stupidity.

Black people can't do simple math? - Must be that math is systematically racist.
White people can't understand simple Spanish grammar? - Must be that Spanish is transphobic.

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Bonzour, zot tou!

Roughly translates to “Hello, everyone!”

You know, it’s just occurred to me that I’ve never actually talked about where I’m from. Sure, I’ve mentioned it here and there, but never in detail.

Time to rectify that. 

Hiya, lovely peeps, and greetings from Mauritius! ‘Tis a small island country off the east coast of mainland Africa, with a population of around 1.3 million people.

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So I've been debating something for an upcoming chapter. It's not exactly 'soon' nor is it a very impactful thing to the story itself, but its been niggling at me and I'd like all of your thoughts on the matter.

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