“Twilight Velvet Sparkle, you open this door right now!”
“Rainbow Jennifer Dash, to your room!”
“Pinkamina Diane Pie, I’m coming to talk to you!”
“Jacqueline Memory Apple, you’re in big trouble!”
“Cookie Flanks, come down this minute!”
“Flo Hardflank Punchyouintheface the 3rd, what did I tell you!”
“You’re engaged to a PRINCESS?! With only a month to prep for Outdoor Ceremony Season(C)??” “Mooom, have you looked at the things poking out of my back late-” “Oh, someone ascended a couple months back, la-dee-dah.” “Er, might we point out that-” “NO.”
naming your kids after yourself is pretty common in some european and many asian or american countries.
Actually, I think it’s pretty much the rule.
Luckily for me; people refer to my father by his second name and to me by the first one.
Wait. If TS’ full name in this canon is “Twilight Velvet Sparkle”, then what’s her mother’s…? “Twilight Sparkle Velvet”?
@Background Pony #03DE
The word “junior” comes from the Latin iunior, which is a third declension comparative adjective and so its masculine and feminine inflections are the same. It’s the neutral gender what has separate inflection.
Funny, I’ve always headcanoned that the Sparkle family was predominantly mares and was headed as such. Twilight “Glimmer” Sparkle, Twilight “Twinkle” Sparkle, Twilight “Shining” Sparkle, Twilight “Velvet” Sparkle, and Princess Twilight “Violet” Sparkle.
In my family firstborn sons get middle names after they fathers first one and it creates mass confusion because we all use middle names in all documents. If I understand correctly Twilight has exactly same situation.
“Rainbow Jennifer Dash, to your room!”
“Pinkamina Diane Pie, I’m coming to talk to you!”
“Jacqueline Memory Apple, you’re in big trouble!”
“Cookie Flanks, come down this minute!”
“Flo Hardflank Punchyouintheface the 3rd, what did I tell you!”
“Mooom, have you looked at the things poking out of my back late-”
“Oh, someone ascended a couple months back, la-dee-dah.”
“Er, might we point out that-”
“NO.”
Actually, I think it’s pretty much the rule.
Luckily for me; people refer to my father by his second name and to me by the first one.
@Background Pony #03DE
The word “junior” comes from the Latin iunior, which is a third declension comparative adjective and so its masculine and feminine inflections are the same. It’s the neutral gender what has separate inflection.
TL;DR - the female of junior is still junior.
Very much true. Let’s hope Twilight has a good escape plan ready to go…
What of in a female-dominant society, i.e., Equestria?
I know it goes for men, not sure if it goes for women?
Kinda weird though.
At least it sounds like that.