Oh the... Humanity?

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Oh the... Humanity?

Post by Sgt Muffin » Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:23 pm

I was writing the other day, and I came to a part in my story where I needed to comment on how one pony had no Humanity... but that doesn't work because Humanity is a word that only applies to humans, so what would ponies use?
In the end I had to scrap my sentence and change it so that the main word was Empathy instead, I would have rather used Humanity or the pony equivalent though.

So, I beseech you, is there a pony version of the word Humanity?
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Re: Oh the... Humanity?

Post by otherunicorn » Wed Dec 28, 2011 8:33 pm

Yup, I've hit that one too.
Depending on situation -
morals
compassion
or the use of a sentence to spell it out-
consideration for other members of ponykind

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Re: Oh the... Humanity?

Post by icekatze » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:30 pm

hi hi

Equinity is one of the more common replacements I think.

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Re: Oh the... Humanity?

Post by Sgt Muffin » Thu Dec 29, 2011 12:29 am

Yeah, but that is a made up word so not many people would understand it. I think I shall have to get by with Empathy.
Before the End is the story of an officer during the last two years of the war against the zebras. The story follows his journey through the Battle for Shattered Hoof Ridge, Battle of Stalliongrad and into the unknown.
Image More art, but it is over 200pix high.

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Re: Oh the... Humanity?

Post by The Jack » Fri Dec 30, 2011 12:33 pm

Sgt Muffin wrote:Yeah, but that is a made up word so not many people would understand it. I think I shall have to get by with Empathy.
IMO it's really easy to understand, given that most people know that "equine" means, in lack of a better description, "horse-y" ^^
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Re: Oh the... Humanity?

Post by Sgt Muffin » Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:57 pm

Equinity looks a little like a misspelling of Equality. I don't know, maybe you're right, but I'm still going to go with other words.
Before the End is the story of an officer during the last two years of the war against the zebras. The story follows his journey through the Battle for Shattered Hoof Ridge, Battle of Stalliongrad and into the unknown.
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Re: Oh the... Humanity?

Post by icekatze » Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:22 am

hi hi

I like Equinity, it has that sort of flourish like when Trixie boasts about being "the greatest equine that ever lived," which is perfect for dramatic prose. But there's plenty of different dialects and accents out there. No reason somepony couldn't use something else too.

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