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Pokemon Name Mistakes [ English Names ]

punkie90 said:
i know! i don't look that close at things like that! *maybe i should *
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See, Gengar really has a high IQ.
 
Iveechan said:
That's the order they appear in the Pokedex... plus the names sound pretty cool. I remember Nintendo Power joked and said there was a fourth bird named Squawtro (squawk and cuatro) or something like that.

Sableye. Sable is a collie color. Unless there's another meaning for sable, this name makes little sense.
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Hehe, I called Ho-oh "Psyatro" in my first-ever pokemon 'fic...that was a LONG time ago. RBY-days, oh yeah.

Anyway, "sable" is commonly used to refer to animals with black pelts...sable mice, sable ferrets, etc...an actual "sable" is a type of marten as far as I know. *shrugs*
 
Sable-

1) adj- dark (in terms of color or lack of light)
2) adj- scary, frightening
3) n- clothes that you wear in funerals

makes a lot of sense to me...
 
Sometimes I do find that Pokemon names are made out of really biological words.
And we use these stuff to memorize them:
"A Tentacruel has a lot of tentacles."
"Omanyte is an Ammonyte."
"A Pinsir has a pair of pincers on its head."
Because Hong Kong secondary schools teach in English.
 
Yes that is how most of the words are made of too...

"Weedle"- needle
"Caterpie"- caterpillar
"Metapod"- metamorphsis (or metal for its "supposedly" hard shell... thought it's weak in defense) + pod
"Deoxy"- DNA

The list goes on and on...
 
they use to literal names, ill probly grow wings if they have an original name! but i still dont know about the Regis! :D
 
regi means king... so it's "king of ice" "king of steel" and "king of rock", saying that they're the superior of their type.
 
Hariyama? i didn't really look into that one... it's either romanization, or named after a real person in japan (related to sumo wrestling too most likely).

Pokemon likes to name themselves after people too, such as "Jessie James" the famous theif in USA, or Musashi Miyamoto the famous samurai where Jessie and her mother got their japanese name from.
 
yeah i thought he looked like a sumo! *goes to Japan and sees to Hariyama wearing diapers and sumo-wrestling* XD
 
And, as we all know, Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee were named after Jackie Chan and Jackie Lee, respectively.
 
DEOXYs really help me to remember that DNA stands for DEOXYribose nucleic acid!!

And I also heard of that Cassy(Abra), Yungera (Kadabra) and Fudin (Alakazam) are famous psychics in the world.
 
Porygon said:
And, as we all know, Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee were named after Jackie Chan and Jackie Lee, respectively.
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No, Hitmonlee was named after good ol' Bruce Lee!
 
jynx said:
DEOXYs really help me to remember that DNA stands for DEOXYribose nucleic acid!!

And I also heard of that Cassy(Abra), Yungera (Kadabra) and Fudin (Alakazam) are famous psychics in the world.
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yes... their english names come from the "spell":
"Abracadabra Alakazam"
 
RS names are not too bad overall but some of them can be rather hideous... just tons of romanizations involved though... and Torchic's evolutions... ugh... terrible names.
 
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