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Something I've always found interesting is the amount of vocabulary that I've first seen in a Pokemon game.

What vocab have the games taught you?

For me, I can only remember two right now, but I know there are more that I've since forgotten.
1. to suppress, as in "[Opponent's] Clear Body suppressed [User's] Intimidate!"
2. calamitous, from PMD: "[User] used Sheer Cold! [Opponent] took calamitous damage! It's a one-hit KO!"
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I basically started to learn English thanks to Pokémon. :'D By the time I actually had English classes I had already played Red and Silver, giving me quite an advantage in English. : >

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Pokémon has definitely boosted my vocabulary, I have learnt words and the meaning of those words all thanks to Pokémon!

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Oddly, I don't remember particularly learning the meaning of difficult words from the NPC conversations on my first few playthroughs (probably because back then, I didn't care about what they said to me that much).

I could say that I learned a lot in terms of sentence structure, grammar, etc. from Pokémon given my young age (and English not being my native language) when I started playing the games.
Not to mention finding out what defense, agility, tackle, constrict and many other Pokémon words meant.
Now that I realize it, I definitely owe a lot to Pokémon (although a few other games aided my English as well).


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A few things from GSC, like 'quantity', and one thing that always comes to mind is from RSE (or dppt?): that soil always seemed to be loamy.

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Buffeted, ether, elixir, Dexoyribonucleic Acid (from Deoxys...not in the game per se, but you know), endeavor, intimidate, most natures (timid, naive, docile), there's plenty of stuff. Can't name it all though!
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I learnt the phrase 'just joshing' in reference to a joke or mocking
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Some of the words that I first encountered in Pokémon games: anxious, flinch, evade, agility and ember.

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When I first picked up my first PARLYZ HEAL I had to ask Mum what Parlyz meant and she figured it was something to do with paralysis and told me all about it. So I learned the words "paralysis" and "paralyse" from Pokemon :P
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Quite a few, actually. It's hard to pick examples from the top of my head, but I'll try. A lot of the natures come to mind, for example, naive, modest... There's also words like endeavour. Yeah, there are more, I'll just have to remember them. xD

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Elixir, though I pronounced it wrong for the longest time. :P

There's also a lot of the natures, too. I had zero clue what most of them meant until I guess somewhat recently lol. It's a bit embarrassing to think about, actually! Modest I thought was the complete opposite of what it was, for example.