Pony names are a much appreciated and well documented part of the awesomeness of Friendship is Magic. It is, however, a little disappointing that this anglophone phenomenon does not extend much to other languages. At least for linguistic nerds like myself who take delight in repeatedly switching audio tracks to compare character names, and deciphering the logic of each rendering. In this respect, the Strawberry Shortcake franchise is rather more fun.

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I need help from Latin scholars. I'm reading The Theory of the Novel by Georg Lukács. It's remarkably prescient in describing the aims of post-modern literature. In fact, it's so prescient that I think it must have created post-modern literature, since as far as I know, no literature of the kind it describes existed when Lukács wrote it in 1914-15 at age 29, and he didn't mention any 20th-century

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Remember Tantabus? Good old Tantabus created by Luna to punish her for the whole Nightmare Moon thing?
So, the word apparently comes from "tantibus" which is allegedly Latin for "nightmare". I say "allegedly" because despite trying quite hard, I have not been able to actually find a reputable source that confirms there even is a Latin word such as "tantibus".
And, no, Google Translate is no reputable source.

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Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, 23-79AD): Roman military commander of the equestrian class, writer and naturalist. Author of the ten volume Natural History documenting the animals, vegetables and minerals of the ancient world. Tragically he got a little too close to his subject matter and was killed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

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Last week Seattle’s Angels did a nice review of The Equine Comedy—a story I wrote nearly three years ago. Thank you to Archonix and Themaskedferret for this. It must be time to revisit this one.

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One skill I have gained in the years since I've visited this site in the past is the skill of translating Latin. As such, when I see it in the wild I am both excited and critical. After 4 years of being the best Latin student at my school, as well as achieving a perfect score on a nationally standardized exam, I know when I'm looking at poor translations. So, after a story I read last night presented me with some Latin, my brain jumped into action. It was a good attempt, don't get me wrong the

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This is Grammer a Week, the periodic blog program-thing where I soapbox about a grammar subject I find interesting. You might, too! This week's installment definitely errs more on the side of "interesting" than "useful" because I'm talking about the word "pegasus" today. What do you think the plural form of the word "pegasus" is? "Pegasuses"? "Pegasi"? That question is actually much harder to answer than you may think.

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there's pretentious latin in the subject line, gotta be a darf-blog

We hesitated making a blog about anything currently political because we feel privileged and unequipped to adequately discuss the topics at hand. After some discussion, we've decided to link to some blog posts from other authors on the site who have said things better than we could.

gara the author

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Sleepy Camel Vomits Up A Tie-dye T-Shirt...

Because you shouldn't go around feeding articles of clothing to random animals.
Even if they're claiming to be mostly peaceful protestors.

Zoos have those signs for a reason!

Based on what you may know about me, what do you headcanon me to be like?
For those who don't know, a headcanon is an idea that isn't confirmed but isnt contradictiory to the facts of something, or canon