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Anon, will you use... the ENGLISH team?

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 12:23:24 No.50372544 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>50372554 >>50374187

These are the only pokemon across all gens whose names are perfect English words, phonically AND orthographically.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 12:24:49 No.50372548 Report

Quoted By: >>50372558

>Golem
>Alakazam
>English

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 12:26:05 No.50372554 Report

Quoted By: >>50373690 >>50373735 >>50373885 >>50373944 >>50374537

>>50372544
These pokemon are the second tier -- names phonically match english words, but are spelled different:

Farfetch’d (far-fetched)
Muk (muck)
Cloyster (cloister)
Drowzee (drowsy)
Krabby (crabby)
Exeggcute (execute)
Exeggutor (executor)
Koffing (coughing)
Weezing (wheezing)
Chansey (chancy)
Horsea (horse)
Jynx (jinx)
Pinsir (pincer)
Bayleef (Bay leaf)
Lanturn (lantern)
Bellossom (blossom)
Unown (unknown)
Forretress (fortress)
Scizor (scissor)
Wynaut (why not)
Purrloin (purloin)
Tranquill (tranquil)
Timburr (timber)
Throh (throw)
Klink (clink)
Klang (clang)
Tyrunt (tyrant)
Bewear (beware)
Comfey (comfy)
Mimikyu (mimic you)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 12:27:07 No.50372558 Report

Quoted By: >>50372564

>>50372548
Have you ever heard of loanwords?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 12:28:31 No.50372564 Report

Quoted By: >>50372585

>>50372558
You mean like the ones pokemon are literally giving us directly?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 12:31:26 No.50372585 Report

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>>50372564
Yeah names taken right out of the dictionary, a 1:1 morphological match

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 16:04:43 No.50373690 Report

Quoted By: >>50373986 >>50374186

>>50372554
>Exeggcute (execute)
>Exeggutor (executor)
>Bellossom (blossom)
>Scizor (scissor)
>Tyrunt (tyrant)
None of those are pronounced the same.

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q Sat 07 May 2022 16:13:50 No.50373735 Report

Quoted By: >>50373919

>>50372554
Aaaand just like that, you lost all credibility. You missed one of the most obvious examples (Seel) which undermines the rest of your posts and theories, just like an academic with bad grammar.
Next time I’d suggest doing more research before posting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 16:40:30 No.50373885 Report

Quoted By: >>50373888

>>50372554
Dewgong and seel

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 16:41:20 No.50373888 Report

Quoted By: >>50373900

>>50373885
DU GONG GON

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q Sat 07 May 2022 16:44:42 No.50373900 Report

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>>50373888
*deafening silence*

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 16:50:08 No.50373919 Report

Quoted By: >>50373952 >>50373956

>>50373735
You'll find no upvotes here nigger. You can't even figure out your own sex but think superiority lies in correct grammar lmao

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 16:56:07 No.50373944 Report

Quoted By: >>50374197

>>50372554
Slaking (Slacking)

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q Sat 07 May 2022 16:56:57 No.50373952 Report

Quoted By: >>50374487

>>50373919
Not trans

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q

Meghan !sUnRxhzu8Q Sat 07 May 2022 16:57:58 No.50373956 Report

Quoted By: >>50374165 >>50374487

>>50373919
And would you trust an academic research essay with awful grammar ?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:02:33 No.50373986 Report

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>>50373690
>Bellossom (Bell-oss-um)
>Scizor (See-zor)
Give me more, because Exeggcute and Exeggutor are the only ones you listed that are even remotely phonetically similar. Tyrunt is close, but I liken it more to a dialect similarity than an actual similarity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:38:13 No.50374165 Report

Quoted By: >>50374537

>>50373956
I made this trivial post in like 25 minutes, reading the pokedex once. Why tf would you expect it to be perfect? Are you thick or something? Seel doesn’t even matter, it’s not first tier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:40:55 No.50374186 Report

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>>50373690
Ok true

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:40:59 No.50374187 Report

Quoted By: >>50374207

>>50372544
Alakazam is english?
Wtf.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:42:18 No.50374197 Report

Quoted By: >>50374390

>>50373944
it’s pronounced “slay-king” so it’s not a phonetic match to the word slacking

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:43:46 No.50374207 Report

Quoted By: >>50374280

>>50374187
it’s a loanword from arabic, so it counts as an english word

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:52:50 No.50374280 Report

Quoted By: >>50374291

>>50374207
It doesn't.

It's like saying tweet is spanish.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 17:54:29 No.50374291 Report

Quoted By: >>50375767

>>50374280
Well, yes, tweet is a Spanish word, Swag is a French word and ménage à trois is an English word

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 18:10:28 No.50374390 Report

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>>50374197
Wrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXA0YrLOOA&ab_channel=Swordtee%27s2ndChannel

Pronouncing it as "Slayking" makes no sense as its name is supposed to be a pun on its laziness and "slacking" off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 18:27:06 No.50374487 Report

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>>50373952
>>50373956
Ah yes. Trust the experts nigger cattle
>M000000000000000

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 18:35:46 No.50374537 Report

Quoted By: >>50375722

>>50372554
>>50374165
How did you include Throh but miss Sawk?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 20:49:16 No.50375722 Report

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>>50374537
Just clicked for me that Sawk = sock. I think I missed it bc Throh sounds closer to throw than Sawk does to sock.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 20:55:08 No.50375767 Report

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>>50374291
brainlets can’t grasp the concept of linguistic contact

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