>>55900930So then you agree you're being a disingenuous cunt, using a mid-game side-quest as canon, especially when we had evidence of a pokémon being able to understand a human kid in-game prior to you even growing into the franchise I bet.
This is another shinkgate kid - they deliberately put it into the game, when they understood exactly how out-of-synch the Japanese and Western playerbase were with the lore. Because that letter was released in the Gen 2 guidebook and it's amazing since TPC took over the localisation (thus Game Freak knew it would be translated fully-faithfully), the first game on a new system, that they expected to be as successful, if not more than the last version (and a new era for the series) introduced the west to this concept by again taking time out of the dev day to specifically add the old fart to drop lore.