Symbol or Cutiemark?

[AnnaPommes]

P.S. emuel, is the German word for cutie mark "Schönheitsfleck"?

Ahaha, well usually a "schönheitsfleck" is like a bithmark or mole. (like the dot some ladies even paint on themself to look a bit more than Marylin Monroe) also i heard it about things soo, if something/someone doesn't look perfect, but that makes them even more authentic/lovable.

i believe in the german tv show, they call it by the english word cutiemark too, let me look thaat up,...

okay, in the song "what my cutiemark is telling me" they really say "schönheitsfleck".  i think they really had trouble to translate the word and this was the best and closest to the original meaning.

[CadePony]

I use both terms interchangeably.

[hathorcat]

Re: Symbol or Cutiemark?
« Reply #19 on: Today at 11:17:08 PM »
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Although even cutie mark is better than what they were actually originally called



What were they originally called Hathorcat??!!

Jules x

It was "official rump design" or something of the like, right?

Yup rump design Its all over their official marketing and licensing merch All pretty and colourful - yup...just does not roll off the tongue.

[brightberry]

I remember at one point in my childhood I went with just "markings" as that's how animals are generally described.   But I've also used symbol and later cutie mark.

[SkyCakes]

I just call it a symbol. I still think to this very day cutiemark is strange and rump design ..... let's not go there please.  

[palaisdejouets]

P.S. emuel, is the German word for cutie mark "Schönheitsfleck"?

Ahaha, well usually a "schönheitsfleck" is like a bithmark or mole. (like the dot some ladies even paint on themself to look a bit more than Marylin Monroe) also i heard it about things soo, if something/someone doesn't look perfect, but that makes them even more authentic/lovable.

i believe in the german tv show, they call it by the english word cutiemark too, let me look thaat up,...

okay, in the song "what my cutiemark is telling me" they really say "schönheitsfleck".  i think they really had trouble to translate the word and this was the best and closest to the original meaning.

Ah, another term for the kind of dot you paint on to look like Marilyn is "beauty mark." Which was probably the inspiration for "cutie mark."

Re: Symbol or Cutiemark?
« Reply #19 on: Today at 11:17:08 PM »
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Although even cutie mark is better than what they were actually originally called
What were they originally called Hathorcat??!!
Jules x

It was "official rump design" or something of the like, right?

Yup rump design Its all over their official marketing and licensing merch All pretty and colourful - yup...just does not roll off the tongue.

OK EVERYONE, WE'VE SOLVED IT. LET'S ALL CHANGE FROM SYMBOL AND CUTIE MARK TO "RUMP DESIGN"

  

[Libelle]

but i always thought they were name tags. which is why so many of my ponies got renames.
butterscotch? yeah, she was Butter-fly.
and i think bowtie was ribbons. etc.
so i didn't call them anything, just thought the symbol was their name.

That's actually the case for many of the German names for G1 ponies. For example, Bowtie is called "Schleifchen" in Germany, which literally means "ribbons".

[FullMoonFever]

Symbol, I feel dumb saying cutie mark.

[reanna-mator]

I use both terms interchangeably.

Me too. But "cutie mark" more often if I'm talking about G4.

[Radiance]

Symbol forever! Cutie mark sounds like a nice way to say little pimple or something. I just don't like the way it sounds at all.

[AnnaPommes]

well, is the "rump design" in any way related to the fact that horses used to get brandings on thier rump to see which farm they are from?  O_O
this might be completely obvious for others.

[Baby Sugarberry]

The very first designs for the Original Six had them with white spots - what eventually became Cotton Candy's design alone, so it's most likely they were based on an appaloosa rather than branding.  Hasbro changed it to different markings rather than all the same to increase the appeal of buying more than one, I'd imagine, making them more unique.

[Taffeta]

OK EVERYONE, WE'VE SOLVED IT. LET'S ALL CHANGE FROM SYMBOL AND CUTIE MARK TO "RUMP DESIGN"

  

The irony of that is that as a kid I always called it a rump mark, and I didn't even know really what the word rump meant when I was four or five years old. I wondered where I got that from; clearly Hasbro promotion seeping into my brain.

I use symbol now. Exclusively, because that was how I was brainwashed when I came to the pony community in 97 . Rump Mark seemed kinda rude then, somehow.

 I don't use G4 terminology, ever - it belongs to G4, which I don't collect, and I have a twitch about new terminology being applied anachronistically to older generations of MLP. Plus symbol sounds more collector-y to me. I am trying to remember what the UK comics called them, because they referred to such things with ponies like the Magic Message. Maybe they used rump mark...

[LadyMoondancer]

Rump design sounds like the shape of the actual pony's butt or something, ha ha.  "Hey Blossom, I've been working out.  What do you think of my rrrrrump design?"

I remember when lots of collectors referred to the heart on the G3's hooves as a cutie mark and to the butt mark as a symbol.

"Cutie mark" especially bothers me for G4 because they make this big deal about how these markings are huge, important indictors of your destiny.  Cutie mark just doesn't sound right for something like that.

I like symbol, but there are lots of possiblities.  Destiny mark?  Destiny design?  Hallmark?  Card companies aside, a hallmark is "a distinguishing feature or characteristic" and "any mark or special indication of genuineness and good quality."

[Al-1701]

Emblem could work in that regard too.