It still has a purpose in historical spelling. Spanish has started to get rid of its historical spellings, but has not entirely finished its, though French seems to be at least a little bit more reluctant.

@Badumsquish
For some words, there’s still a distinction between those who start with a silent H and those who start with an aspirated H (which has an etymological basis, the former mainly applying to Latin words and the latter to Germanic words), but in modern French neither is actually pronounced and the only relevance they still have pertains to liaison and elision rules between words (for example, the H of “harmonie” is silent while that of “harpe” is aspirated; therefore, if you precede those two words with a definite article — in that case “la”, since they’re both feminine nouns — you get “l’harmonie” on one hand and “la harpe” on the other).

If you want a purely ornamental letter though, look at how many words in the French language end with a silent E!

@Ereiam
The funniest rule he told me was how H is totally pointless in French. Like, it’s purely ornamental XD

@Background Pony #029F
Oh man you have no idea. I have really dark skin. So dark you can take a photo of me, change it to black and white, and my skin tone won’t change. Though I do have a totally American-sounding first name XD

@Badumsquish
Somali, huh? I had an entirely different mental image of what you looked like when you said you were a Trucker. And I’m also guessing your name is probably not Earl either.

@Badumsquish
Yep, the “ch-” spelling is the default one in French (I’m pretty sure all the instances of “sh-” we have come from foreign loanwords).

@Ereiam
This is why I get people who know French to translate for me XD

@Background Pony #754D
I honestly don’t know. All I speak is okay Spanish, like enough that I could live somewhere but I’d struggle to hold a conversation, and I know a bit of Somali from my parents XD

@Ereiam
@Background Pony #754D
@Ereiam
It was funny, because the guy I asked was like “You’d just say “chuis” but was also like “I have no idea how it’s spelled, I’ve always just wrote ‘Je suis’.” He assumed it was chuis rather than shuis since apparently sh words aren’t nearly as common as ch words in French XD

@Background Pony #45E5
It’s what she gets for carpet-bombing the outside world with “Come here and be my friend!” letters XD

@Background Pony #754D
Probably because it’s a transcription of a spoken idiom that can only ever be found in colloquial dialogue (as opposed to “proper French”).
A similar English example would be “what are you”, which is sometimes contracted as “wotcher”.
Another actually translatable example: where an English speaker would say “I dunno”, it would be “Chaipas” (contraction of “Je ne sais pas”) for a French one.

@Ereiam
I’ve figured that out, but my question is why I’ve never seen it written that way before.

And then Sunny has turned into a batpony after one bite

Pretty soon sunny will have more friends than pinkie pie

@Background Pony #754D
“Chuis” is a colloquial phonetic contraction of “j’suis”, which itself is (also in spoken colloquial) the elision of “je suis”, meaning “I am”.

@Badumsquish
Isn’t the Russian word for “friend” also close to their word for “others”?
@Ereiam
So is “chuis” a Québec thing or is it a French verb I don’t know about?

Oh yeah, clever (didn’t even think that “souris” is also the conjugation of said verb at the singular first and second persons of the present and past simple — and the imperative singular second person as well, as in “Smile!”).

“Toaster” is “grille-pain” in French (although it probably gets more usage on my side of the Atlantic XD).

@icicle wicicle 1517
@Ereiam
Yep, pretty much :P

@Setsugekka
She’s going to be like “it says here bat ponies only eat fruit, and they don’t actually drink blood!” and Souris’ going to be like

Thankfully Souris is genuinely friendly :P

@Background Pony #9434
They come from a few different places. This one from a spooky Halloweentown type affair :P

@Celestia’s Servant
She’s also using noseboops, which is a bat pony thing :P

@Ereiam
It’s a double pun. “Souris” from the French word for bat, and it also sounds like “Sourire”, the French verb for smiling :P

@moonchosen
@Background Pony #0212
They prefer rubbing noses for exactly that reason XD

@Background Pony #A8F1
She mostly just wants to see the unicorns and pegasi. She can’t speak English but she has an English to French dictionary, and she misread “Dear unicorns and pegasi, you have friends in Maretime Bay come visit us” as Maretime Bay being a place where you could visit unicorns and pegasi. Which, isn’t exactly wrong anymore XD

@Joey
@Background Pony #6C2E
@Supermark
:D

@Quint-t-W
Presumably she’s out of breath from trying to run from Jagarti XD

@Phoenixflambe
@Background Pony #1C75
@Clever Clovers
She sent out a LOT of those notes XD

@Mr.Myoozik
The guy who translated it for me is from Quebec :P

@koschyy
She’s mostly going to be worried about whatever the hell else found those notes she sent. XD

@Background Pony #6769
According to a buddy of mine who’s from Canada, a “YesNoToaster” is someone from Quebec who can’t speak any English, since yes, no, and toaster are three words they’ll still know (apparently even the French there just say “toaster” rather than whatever the hell the French word for toaster is) XD

Why Toaster?

Also will she meet a skunk pony?

She hasn’t met a goo pony. Yet.

*no-no

Hey, Badum? I know this has nothing to do with the picture, but I think you said spiders and zombies were a no-one for you? I can’t remember where though.

I wonder what new friend will be the weirdest encounter?

Does this and Sunny’s lamia encounter mean she’ll get buyer’s remorse?

That title of “uniter of all races” is starting to bite you in the ass, eh, Sunny?

You REALLY should’ve read more on modern Equestria, not just the ancient stuff. You’d have learnt that there’s more than just earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns if you had simply done that…

First the lamia and now this. You didn’t know what you were getting into Sunny.

It’d be funny if she was speaking Quebec French

Sunny, uniter of ALL races.

Well, I hope Sunny is ready to learn some French. :P