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Pinkie Pie and the Cakes consistently use the term "baby-sitter" and they all live in Ponyville. Twilight, Shining Armor, and Cadence use the term "foal-sitter" and they all grew up in Canterlot. So the difference in language is probably regional.

* This also explains the [[StevenUlyssesPerhero stangely meaningful names]] of some ponies. Their actual names contained no lexical elements that made sense to the translators, who then just willy-nilly made up some names that the voice actors can pronounce, by random association from cutie marks or personality traits. Therefore a pony that the translators first had to name ''after'' their cutie mark appeared will often have an English name that refers to it, but nothing can be learned from the names of ponies that the translators had to name ''without'' such knowledge.

* Windigos don't burn, and can't really be caught, being spirits of cold and ice and hate. You seem to have confused them for timber wolves.

The ponies wear saddles and occasionally bridles as a tribute to the now long extinct race of "gods" that created their civilization.

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[[WMG: Pizzas have not been invented by ponies.]]
I'm rather surprised that the single most popular party food is not seen at any party shown in the show. We've seen lots of birthday cake and cupcakes, but no pizza! A real shame too... Pizza is a great food to have, they don't even need to have any real meat on them.
* And how is a pony supposed to hold a pizza slice, let alone take one from many (outside unicorn telekinesis, of course)?
** Not much of an objection when the ponies already deal just fine with cakes and pies.
*** Not exactly Jossed, but the My Little Pony Friendship Celebration Collection Set (Toys R Us exclusive) features two ponies called Sweetie Swirl and Firecracker Burst having pizza together. How do they hold their pizza? With plastic rings, of course!

*** Or perhaps something like a {{Gargoyles}} Wind Ceremony. Everyone flies through the ashes (or perhaps raindrops as suggested) so that the departed will be with them always.

** The "humans must be better" argument falls flat when you remember that in real life, animals are not as intelligent as humans and are glorified in fiction, ''especially'' by Furries. Humans are, if not a myth but exist on another continent (as is done in the fanwork ''TurnaboutStorm''), probably mediocre compared to ponies but in fiction, a pony's human companion may be hyperintelligent for a human, much in the same way where a human's animal companion is hyperintelligent compared to them and others of their species.

* And it's not the only topic like this, either. Consider now the term "horse's ass." Foals typically leave their mother's womb via the rear exit, so calling a pony a "horse's ass" could probably serve as a YourMom slam. Unless, of course, said pony's birth is what made his mother into a HotMom. Then he might not mind so much.

[[WMG: Ancient temples, the Sapphire Statue/Stone, and Ahuizotl don't exist in Equestria.]]
They were all just made up for the book.
* What. No. You lie. They exist, they have to. They're just like Hogwarts; they only exist to those who are worthy. THEY EXISSSSSST. The Sapphire Stone is totally on display in the Canterlot Museum most days, the exhibit is just on tour in Buckshire right now.

* While we don't really know how far back the events go, it wouldn't be ''totally'' unrealistic if relevent info, such as the leaders names and personalities, survived in records to the present day. After all, we know the names of a great deal of the names of the pharohs going back 5000 years.

Te celebrate the return of the Crystal Empire to Equestria, Hearth's Warming Eve shall henceforth be known as [[IncrediblyLamePun Crystmas]].

Equestria is a [[LadyLand Lady Land]] society not run by males, but by females. All of the political leaders are not female because a princess is glamorous, but because a conservative Pony belief is that the females are more suited for leadership roles. That's why the show focuses on a strong female cast of characters- within the realms of their society, they would function as a male roles. In a similar vein to the novel, Egalia's Daughters, the men become "masculists," as opposed to real-life feminism. They've worked their way up into equal standing with the females, but some conservative ways are still around, such as the sparkley atmosphere.

** Jossed as of ''A Canterlot Wedding'' - Twilight Sparkle definitely throws magic blasts around. Though that could of course be self-thought from some obscure books.

** Possibly the gun is also a recent invention, to weak and unreliable to be used (see [[http://pooryorickda.deviantart.com/gallery/37506217 "Equestria Divided"]] by [=PoorYorick=] on DeviantArt for examples I am thinking of) besides a morale busting weapon outside of giant cannons. Earth Ponies may not of had not enough need to develop weapon technology (see above reasons) or were not ALLOWED to develope weapon technology, do to there former statuses of serfs.

** Humans would probably be the BadassNormal in pony mythology. We lack magic, special powers, or even physical strength but because of our cunning and dexterity we can do things that would seem damn near impossible to ponies. It took a goddess and some of their most powerful weapons in order to send someone to the moon? We've expand our domain into other planets. They need to find water, diamonds, gold, and other resources in nature? We can create our own water, gold, diamonds, and etc. (Mind you it is impractical and expensive but we are capable of it.) They use spears, cannons, and whatever their magic can preform? We have weapons that can wipe out entire cities in a blink of an eye. And so on and so forth. As for how we're characterized, we'd probably be defined as curious, ambitious, well meaning, extremely self-centered, and greedy. For every good thing we've done, we've done an equally horrible thing. For every discovery and invention we find both a good and bad application for it. Also, I always theorized that Lyra was the equine equivalent of a brony. (Ponman? Equine Sapiens? I'm still trying to think of a name.)