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Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:01:46 No.27958077 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>27958114 >>27958141 >>27958238 >>27958781 >>27960173 >>27962614

Why is Pokemon spelled with an accent over the e? I never understood this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:04:23 No.27958104 Report

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In french the acute accent makes a kind of 'eh' sound, so instead of saying poke-mon it's poke-eh-mon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:05:12 No.27958114 Report

Quoted By: >>27958252 >>27958669 >>27960107

>>27958077
So americans can pronounce it correctly and not Po-kem-on or Poke-mon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:05:47 No.27958117 Report

Quoted By: >>27958135

WHY IS IT NOT FUCKING POCKEMON?

THAT'S THE REAL ?

UPVOTE THIS SO GAMEFREAK WILL SEE MY POST

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Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:08:00 No.27958135 Report

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>>27958117
>pockemon
pockymon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:08:05 No.27958136 Report

Quoted By: >>27958154

Because it's supposed to be pronounced "po-kay-mon", not "po-kee-mon"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:08:31 No.27958141 Report

Quoted By: >>27962118

>>27958077
"pokemon" is some obscure french novel from a few decades ago so they had to make it something slightly different to get around copyright shit

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Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:09:34 No.27958154 Report

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>>27958136
>pokaymon

No it fucking isn't, Anglos are just complete retards

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:15:47 No.27958238 Report

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>>27958077
The é is some kind of french thingy i guess. They made it so you say it Like Poké and not Poke as in Poking something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:16:42 No.27958252 Report

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>>27958114
>implying Americans know how to pronounce accented letters

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:39:39 No.27958586 Report

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>>27958252
This. I'm American and I didn't know how to pronounce accented letters until I started learning Spanish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:46:45 No.27958669 Report

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>>27958114
>POLKAMON

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:49:06 No.27958701 Report

Quoted By: >>27958758

but the anime makes sure that we know how to pronounce pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:50:41 No.27958735 Report

Quoted By: >>27961981

>>27958252
It's a direct visual clue that it's not pronounced "poke-mon," though. That's enough to convince the average person it should be pronounced differently.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:52:26 No.27958758 Report

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>>27958701
You're assuming parents have seen the anime. In all likelihood it's for their sake when their five year old starts asking for a game with gibberish in the title.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:53:56 No.27958781 Report

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>>27958077
Because it's condensed from Pocket Monsters fampai

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:56:45 No.27958820 Report

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>>27958135
pocky is pronounce poh-ki FYI

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:58:42 No.27958854 Report

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>>27958586
And there's no É in spanish. Thanks for your help.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:58:45 No.27958856 Report

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>>27958154
The original materials have literally pronounced it that way you fuckwit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 07:59:01 No.27958859 Report

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It's pronounced with Japanese pronunciation, so disregard "pokemon" and just say "pocket" without the t.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 08:00:22 No.27958873 Report

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You're supposed to say pokEHmon instead of POKehmon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 08:06:12 No.27958957 Report

Quoted By: >>27958988 >>27958990 >>27959285 >>27962962 >>27963348

Ok. I'm French and, as you might know, we are the most intelligent people on Earth. The É is there to help you, stupid muhricans, to pronounce is Po-kay-mon, like in Po-Kay-t Monster. You got it? Or you're just farting, eating chips, driving big cars, voting for Trump. You silly fat-ass redneck loosers.
Have a nice day by the way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 08:07:58 No.27958974 Report

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>>27958781
Why don't we say pah-kay-mahn rather than poh-kay-mahn?

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Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 08:09:35 No.27958988 Report

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>>27958957

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Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 08:09:44 No.27958990 Report

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>>27958957
There's no ay in Pokemon. It's eh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 08:38:12 No.27959285 Report

Quoted By: >>27959604

>>27958957
If you're French and you pronounce É as ay then you're doing it wrong

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 09:09:05 No.27959604 Report

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>>27959285
The problem is not that i pronounce É as AY, but that I pronounce AY as É...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:00:32 No.27959968 Report

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>>27959604
You're Canadian then, aren't you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:03:43 No.27959989 Report

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>>27958854
What?

¿Qué cojones dices estúpido? Claro que hay "é" en español.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:15:55 No.27960107 Report

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>>27958114
>Americans still pronounce it as POH-KEE-MON

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:26:25 No.27960173 Report

Quoted By: >>27960194

>>27958077
Because Murrikans can't into pronouncing vowels properly and think just about everything is a diphthong, long vowel or randomly silent.

In the rest of the world, the vowels are always pronounced the exact same way, only having a short and a long variant:
A="cUt"/"cAW"
E="hEll"/"mEre"
I="hIt"/"hEAt"
O="nOt" (British accent)/"bOrn"
U="fOOt"/"fOOl"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:30:09 No.27960194 Report

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>>27960173
It's much more prevalent in English than other languages but pretty much no language that uses the latin alphabet is consistently pronunced the way it's spelled.

Which is one of the reasos why syllabic languages like Japanese are so great for non-native learners.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:32:08 No.27960205 Report

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>>27958820
more like poke-key

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:32:43 No.27960208 Report

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>>27958856
The kana for Pokemon are "Po-ke-mo-n", not "Po-ke-i-mo-n", idiot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 10:37:44 No.27960244 Report

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>Calling the series Pokemon

It's Pocket Monsters. I baka every time I hear an autist call Pocket Monsters "Pokemon"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 13:39:56 No.27961981 Report

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>>27958735
The average person says pokee though I just want to smack them

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 13:43:06 No.27962016 Report

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>eh and ay are the same sound
Um

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 13:47:01 No.27962057 Report

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>>27959968
Eh? Was it this year or last you started spelling it ayy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 13:50:32 No.27962101 Report

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Without the accent people would pronounce it
Poke mon. poke like the verb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 13:52:33 No.27962118 Report

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>>27958141
Source?
Would be interesting if true

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 14:34:47 No.27962614 Report

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>>27958077
Poke-AYY-Mon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 14:56:58 No.27962962 Report

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>>27958957
Enjoy the genocide of your people via Muslim immigration. Europe is cucky, but damnit France, you and Germany take the cake. Toodles!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Aug 2016 15:20:29 No.27963348 Report

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>>27958957
Good post pêh

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