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Started by Ichida June 28th, 2007 5:56 AM
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Any Pokemon's name pronunciations surprise you? I just destroyed Taylor's Bibarel, and the announcer pronounced it "Bee-barrel." Before then I had always said "Bib'a-rell." Same with Rotom. I was saying "wrote-om," but the announcer said "Row-Tom." Anyone else get surprised like this?
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Yeah! I was hoping to see how the announcer would say Pachirisu. One of the ones I noticed was Fortress, I said it like Fort-tress and the announcer said Foret-tress. Its happened alot with other pokemon too, thats just the only one I can recall.
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Yeah, I always said "Pa'cheer-E-su," then he calls it "Pah-chi'ree-su." Weird. I never liked Pachirisu that much anyways.
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My sister gets annoyed whenever the announcer says "muh-rill", and accent on the "ril", instead of "mair-il", with the long A and accent on the "mair" (sorry, pronunciations are hard for me to explain).

I was hoping this would be a good way to hear the correct pronunciations of the less common or already passed Pokémon, with regards to the anime, but now I don't think it will be as reliable as I would want. -_- Still nice though, so can't complain much.
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I pronounce:
Pachirisu PAH-chih-riz
Ekans EE-cans
Misdreavus MISS-dree-vuss
Mismagius MISS-mag-us
Linonne LIE-oon
Grotle GROW-tle

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Here's one I noticed yesterday... the announcer says "Pon-NE-ta" instead of "PON-ne-ta". But yeah, minor gripes for an overall cool game.
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The announcer get annoying a times, but ya he does say the names wierd. I was like... um dude you Pronounced it wrong, say it with me now Pony-TA!

I hate when he says "PPPPPPP is slowly losing health..." and he saounds kind of geeky towards the end.

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I know there are multiple pronounciations for the word Pokemon (in my case, Gates is saying it wrong; it's KAH, not KEY or KAY.)
It is supposed to be Poh-kay-mon, since the e is accented, as with the word anime. The only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because the actors read it wrong. I'm guessing their scriptwriters don't bother to insert an accented e into the scripts.
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However, the accented e is at the END of anime. If it's in the MIDDLE, it's anyone's guess.
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Kyogre

I pronounce it Kio-grey. He pronounces it Kai-oger

And Ponyta. I prononce it like Pony-ta. He says Ponita.

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I noticed this too. Normally, for pronounciations I just go with the anime, which makes it annoy me when the announcer pronounces Togetic as "Toh-ge-tik" with an emphasis on the "ge", as opposed to the "Toh-guh-tick" in the show.

However, the accented e is at the END of anime. If it's in the MIDDLE, it's anyone's guess.
...?? Um, Ichida's right...
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One Pokemon I hate most is Roserade. I pronounce it "Roser-odd". He pronounces it "Rose-rade". I can't stand it.

That's really the only one I've noticed so far ((seeing as how I don't actually own the game... Or a Wii...)), but there's a few others that bugged me that I can't remember.
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One Pokemon I hate most is Roserade. I pronounce it "Roser-odd". He pronounces it "Rose-rade". I can't stand it.
It IS Rose-rade. The name comes from the word masquerade.
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I noticed this too. Normally, for pronounciations I just go with the anime, which makes it annoy me when the announcer pronounces Togetic as "Toh-ge-tik" with an emphasis on the "ge", as opposed to the "Toh-guh-tick" in the show.



...?? Um, Ichida's right...
How so? The accented e is in the MIDDLE, not the END. Besides, if I hear anyone say it as KEY or KAY, I will litterally ask them "What year is it?" Answer that question correctly, then I'll say that your pronounciation is still stuck in the '90's, because it changed after the fad died down.
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If a move has a base power of 60 or more, it's good. 55 is okay.
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Pokémon is just Pocket Monsters put together, as that is a common occurrence in Japanese. Pocket Monster would be pronounced "Po-ke-to Mon-sta", with emphasis put on the "ke". So the "kay" pronunciation is what makes sense, though more subtle.

Po-keh-mon. ^^;
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Ichida

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How the bloody hell can the pronunciation of a word change because it's old? It is, was, and always will be Poh-KAY-mon.
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Well, I suppose with some background on how Japanese pronounce words, it makes it a little clearer how some of them are supposed to be pronounced, but still I think that's semi-invalid because their names change when they come over here anyway.

but it's po'kay'mon
or as I like to say teh pokedemanz.
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Any Pokemon's name pronunciations surprise you? I just destroyed Taylor's Bibarel, and the announcer pronounced it "Bee-barrel." Before then I had always said "Bib'a-rell." Same with Rotom. I was saying "wrote-om," but the announcer said "Row-Tom." Anyone else get surprised like this?
I pronounce Bibarel same as you. I pronounce Rotom Rot-um. Togetic, which I pronounce toe-gu-tick, they pronounce toe-get-ick. with emphasis on the first syllable. The pronunciations are wierd, but listening to the cartoon, which is supposedly saying them right, most of the pronunciations greatly differ from what I expected. They're made up words after all, the regular rules for for figuring out a pronunciation go out the window.

Oh, and in the older cartoon, they pronounced it POgumon. it was like they all were struck with sinuses on the second syllable. and that came back for the Master of Mirage POkemon movie too. I personally pronounce it po-kuh-mon, but I know the proper pronunciation is pokaymon.


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I actually never thought about this, as I've yet to buy PBR, but I'm definitely going to be listening more intently when playing.

Here's the way I pronounce the following names:
Rotom as "Row-Tom"
Ponyta as "Poh-nee-tah"
Bibarel as "Bih-bar-el"
Togetic as "Toh-geh-tick"
Gardevoir as "Gar-de-voir"
Porygon as "Poor-ee-gone"
and Roserade "Rose-er-ade"

It seems when there's a consonant paired with an i, the announcer pronounces the i as a long "e" sound. (Hence Bibarel being pronounced "Bee-Barel"). Along with using different sounds, it seems to me that the announcer places emphasis on different syllables than what the majority of us are used to. I suppose that could really throw you off. o_O

Oh, on random note: I can't stand when Pokémon is pronounced poh-key-mon. It drives me absolutely nuts. Dunno why, really.
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