>>25035454>Why do people like having Pokemon talk?Because We Digimon Now since Gen2 (metal evolutions). We are just in denial.
Somewhat more seriously,
>>25035477 has the gist of it. Since most writers are human, there is the notational shortcut (and more than a fair bit of anthropocentric fantastic racism) that a race is "smart" or "sapient" if they speak... exactly in the way humans do.
>>25035994>Options>Let's consider them.>2) Lassie.I'm personally much fond of 2-a Section 7-g: Trainers can moderately understand their own Pokémon, over time, and viceversa; but they can only understand fragments of what other Pokémon communicate (Pokémon don't seem to have _that_ limitation in canon, for whatever reason).
>>25033092>Literally>CAPCTHA>Like 8 digitsFug.
