My Little Pony: My Little Pony The Martian

AMICITAS Mission Three – Mission Day 351

ARES 3 solar day 346

"Aha!"

Spitfire poked the computer screen with his hoof, "Starlight always said 'you need to know how to speak and write correctly'. Then humans will understand. But here is a human writer who writes badly. On purpose!"

Guards on the screen! guard! Just halfway through reading, the captain of the guard, Samuel Weems, was adopting the traditional police case-solving procedure: recording all the facts in order to discover the connection between things. However, since this is a fantasy novel, and it also involves a dragon that appears and disappears through magical means, the police's notes are naturally written in an old-fashioned style that makes them look shabby after reading. (To be clear, though, the article doesn’t actually use any bad terms.)

"Look! Look at this! He can't even find the words to use!" Another (Itym): Then... the dragon (draggon) is not some kind of mechanical device, and it is also certain that no wizard can create such a huge thing. ... Huge... a beast of such size.' [1] What on earth was he trying to say?"

"Magnitude," Starlight Glimmer muttered as a reminder. Noticing that Spitfire still looked confused, she explained in pony language, "It's Huge."

"Oh. I can't even use this word in Pony, let alone English." Spitfire shrugged and switched back to English, continuing to argue her point, "This proves that you don't need to be perfect. English! Even humans get it wrong sometimes!”

"Splitfire," CherryBerry asked calmly, "Have you ever read about the Wonderbolts before..." She specifically said the name in pony language, "In the files recorded about, say, four hundred years ago? "

"Of course! When I have to read!" Spitfire replied, "It's so annoying! Ponies back then couldn't spell! The words were all...weird! Reading made me go crazy..." This Only then did she suddenly wake up, lowered her head to look at the computer screen, and then turned to Cherry Berry. Spitfire responded, borrowing a phrase she had heard Mark use several times, "I see what you mean."

"Oh, it's much more than that," Starlight Glimmer continued to explain. "The character who wrote these notes came from a poor background and lived in a city without public education, not even a one-room school like Ma Town."

"A school with only one classroom?" Mark's interest always lies elsewhere. "Why do you still have that kind of thing? Speaking of which, how big is Ma Town?"

"This is not important now," Starlight ignored it. "What I want to say is that Captain Vimes' poor grammar is completely excusable, but he is still trying. Even if he doesn't talk like this at all. , decided to use this archaic—meaning very old—words and spellings because he believed that educated people wrote in this way. And the author Mr. Pratchett was able to accurately grasp when and where How to break the rules of grammar and spelling in order to achieve just the right literary effect. This is the ability that a deep knowledge of a language gives you!"

"Okay, okay," Feihuo still disagreed, "I have no plans to write a book on Mars."

"Can we continue reading now?" Cherry Berry was a little impatient.

"Wait a minute," Mark said, not intending to let it go. "I want to revisit the idea that public education is not important."

Spitfire grabbed the computer and started reading aloud - very, very loudly - and finally forced Mark to give up his plan to further study the Malaysian education system.

[Note:]

1. Attached is Guards! Guards! original text:

Itym: The draggon was not a Mechanical devise, yet surety no wizzard has the power to create a beaste of that mag. magg. maggnyt. Size.