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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 17:43:22 No.55451283 View View Reply Original Report

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>english name is just whatever they are based on but spelled wrong
Why was this so common in gen 1?

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 17:45:18 No.55451290 Report

Quoted By: >>55452045

isn't every pokemon name just whatever they're based on but spelled wrong?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 17:45:31 No.55451291 Report

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>>55451283
Because it works, that’s normies eat up GenWun, and game freak shills it so much

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 17:47:26 No.55451306 Report

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>>55451283
>gen 1 pokemon
>japanese name is just an english word

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 17:48:10 No.55451313 Report

Quoted By: >>55453832 >>55454820 >>55454836 >>55455518

>the Klink line wasn't "Geer", "Gigeer", and "Gigageer" respectively
Missed opportunity.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 17:52:16 No.55451335 Report

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>>55451283
Probably because it wasn't well-established what a Pokemon name should be like. There's also Gloom, Ditto, and Golem, which are just words, spelled correctly and all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 17:53:06 No.55451340 Report

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aCTUALLY, jAPS iNTERCHANGE r AND l, SO PORYGON IS ACTUALLY CORRECT AND POLYGON

OP touches young chidren

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 18:01:25 No.55451377 Report

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>>55451283
because it's more soulful then trying to make some clunky tryhard pun like gen 5 does.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 18:02:47 No.55451379 Report

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>>55451283
I always assumed that "porygon" was a really tortured play on "polygon" and "origami" because it looks like an origami bird

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 18:12:23 No.55451427 Report

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>>55451377
>soul = lazy
got it, thanks boomer

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 18:15:16 No.55451444 Report

Quoted By: >>55451491

It took me 20 years to realise porygon was polygon said with a Japanese accent

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 18:16:32 No.55451450 Report

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>>55451340
The japanese are stupid

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 18:24:37 No.55451491 Report

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>>55451444
Given the low budget and dysfunction of gen 1's development I'm willing to bet a Japanese dev or someone from Nintendo was trying to tell one of the translators the English translation of porygon's name and they found how he said "polygon" funny enough they used that as the name

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 19:22:48 No.55451804 Report

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>>55451283
There was no formula for naming mons during Generation I's development. Many generations passed with them still not knowing how exactly mons should be named and subsequently churning out rather low quality "good enough"'s.

It took till Generation IX to get something as simple and elegant as 'Lokix', and even still they're using something as bad as 'Kingambit'.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 19:24:30 No.55451816 Report

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>>55451283
>No tricks, no gimmicks to the naming as it's just simple naming convention anyone playing could come up with if they saw it
Maybe genwunners actually are onto something saying that gen is the best

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 19:34:00 No.55451877 Report

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>>55451491
This isn't true. All the Pokémon names in Japanese have an romaji (Latin script) trademark name counterpart and for Porygon, it's Porygon in Japan too before Red and Blue were localized.
You can see this spelling in the first Japanese Opening which came out in 1997, while Red & Blue came to the US in 1998.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 19:38:53 No.55451904 Report

Quoted By: >>55451938 >>55454836

There was a poster of the original English names before release and there were far more that were just English words. Arcanine was Blaze, Parasect was Parasyt.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 19:45:23 No.55451938 Report

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>>55451904
Machoke was kungfoo

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 19:58:02 No.55452000 Report

Quoted By: >>55454836

>>55451283
The original names got incredibly simplistic at times, too.
Haunter is "Ghost". Gastly is simply "Ghos".
Moltres is Fire, Zapdos is Thunder, and Articuno is Freezer.
Vaporeon is Showers, Flareon is Booster, and Jolteon just pluralizes Zapdos's name as Thunders.
Then you got stuff like Dratini, whose original name is Miniryu, which is basically just "mini dragon".
Honestly, the localization having simplistic names for gen 1 Pokémon is pretty faithful to the original names.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 20:07:31 No.55452045 Report

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>>55451290
No

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 20:10:41 No.55452068 Report

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I prefer the simpler names, much easier to remember. Do you know this fuckers name? I certainly don't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 20:12:19 No.55452074 Report

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>>55452068
Probably just because it's a newer Pokemon. I remember Hakamo-o and its line's names because of the hyphen

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 20:20:04 No.55452131 Report

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>>55451283
Localizers were lazy back then.

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 20:31:21 No.55452186 Report

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 20:34:19 No.55452207 Report

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>>55452068
Boomer Kuwanger i think

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Anonymous Thu 22 Feb 2024 22:41:04 No.55452827 Report

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>>55451283
Because burgers a dumb.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 02:26:10 No.55453811 Report

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>>55451283
Mankey is Monkey+Cranky, retard

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 02:31:25 No.55453832 Report

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>>55451313
Gigageer is so good.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:12:15 No.55454793 Report

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>>55451283
Isn't porygon's jp name the exact same as burger land?

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:14:40 No.55454799 Report

Quoted By: >>55454836

YEAH BUT WHEN THEY DO IT FOR FLAMIGO EVERBODY BITCHES AND CRIES

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:20:56 No.55454820 Report

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>>55451313
It should have been
Cogear, Gigear, Gigagear.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:21:57 No.55454824 Report

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>>55451379
>Not named Porygami

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:29:48 No.55454836 Report

Quoted By: >>55454863

>>55451313
Their JP names are Giaru, Gigiaru, and Gigigiaru respectively, so that checks out.
>>55451904
>>55451938
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Gyarados called Skulkraken there? I still think it's a way better name.
>>55452000
Don't forget Magnemite: its Japanese name is Coil. Magneton's is Rarecoil.
>>55454799
Didn't everyone shit on Flamigo when it was actually shown?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:34:37 No.55454855 Report

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>>55451283
Porygon isn't based on a polygon THOUGH

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:35:50 No.55454858 Report

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>>55451283
>filename
kek

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 07:39:54 No.55454863 Report

Quoted By: >>55455499

>>55454836
It's Skulkra. "Skulkraken" is fanfiction. That name would be too long even for the release version.

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 08:13:27 No.55454948 Report

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Hacking, stomping, spitting on Arbok's hideous body

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 12:31:37 No.55455499 Report

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>>55454863
It was Skulkraken which would've fit exactly

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 12:39:38 No.55455518 Report

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>>55451313
It is that in Japanese.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 12:40:24 No.55455522 Report

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Keeping "porygon" is kinda racist

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 18:41:25 No.55457050 Report

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Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 18:44:49 No.55457077 Report

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>>55451283
It is literally the same practice in Japanese

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