>>13988294>Words smashed together being the exception to the ruleFirst, I don't know whether you're talking about compound words or portmanteaus. There's a difference, you uneducated swine. A lot of the names you gave are such with the exceptions of Scatterbug and Furfrou.
Second, you must be remembering things wrong. Pokemon with portmanteau names ARE the rule. Everything else has been either simple corruptions of words (i.e. Jynx) or Pokemon who have letters, words, or sounds unnecessarily added to pieces of the name of the animal, object, or theme they're based off of (i.e. Furfrou, Phanpy, Deoxys, Pidgey-line, etc). The true exceptions seem to be Pokemon who have unique names, and even in this case it's usually because they didn't bother to make a different name and kept the Japanese one (i.e. Pikachu, a good nunber of legendaries), and the Pokemon who have a name that are a combination of two or more separate and full words to make a compound word (i.e. Scatterbug). Usually, Pokemon fall into any one of these categories, with portmanteau names seemingly being the most populous, unique and compound names being the least populous, and word corruption and added sound names lie somewhere in the middle.
The situation with Talonflame is a weird one because we can do nothing but speculate as to what they were trying to accomplish with the name. It could be just be the compound word Talon + Flame (in which case all the rage would be justified) or it could be the portmanteau Talon + Inflame, of which the parent words would be especially compatible phoenetically. I think we can agree however, that it would have at least SEEMED a lot less unimaginative and lazy if they had spelled it Talinflame, or even took that portmanteau and corrupted it as Talenflame (since the word Enflame is itself a corrupted variant of the word Inflame). Maybe they should have thought about that a bit longer for appearance's sake.
