[RFC][SI][Multi-Xover]Being You is Suffering

[Foxboy]

Hm. Okay, you're going to want a lot of liquid consonants and clear vowels. I had been working on an "Equestrian" for another project, but that one went closer to "Make horse sounds musical, if you can."

Some sample sentences of that: (aeiou are Italian/Japanese, h is always pronounced, r is rolled/trilled/flapped, and v and f are pronounced with the lips, no teeth.)

I lihro hepu-za vo.
/ee LEEH-rro HAY-poo-za vo/

1p.s like/enjoy Apple-acc prsnt.

"I like apples."

It's got a bit of a complicated pronoun scheme, with inclusive and exclusive plurals, and a "royal" register that tends to imply strong or intimate feeling, mainly due to Celestia's use of it over the last thousand years compared to the old Unicorn royalty. Additionally, "hi'in" is supposed to sound like a "joyful" whinny, with the apostrophe indicating a glottal stop: what the hyphen in "uh-oh" sounds like.

Soi, didua hi'in i-za vo-vis.
/SO-ee, DEE-dwa HEE-een EE-za VO-vees./
Yes(friendly) 2p.s.royal make.proud 1p.s-acc prsnt-fut.

"Of course you're making me proud, my little pony/my faithful student."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll