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Didn’t even know the name Pokémon was derived from Pocket Monsters. Makes sense.
by testmasterflex 4y ago
Didn’t even know the name Pokémon was derived from Pocket Monsters. Makes sense.
- somat 4y agoI always got a little bit of inexplicable joy out of how the card game was "pocket monsters"(using latin characters) in Japan and "pokemon" in the US. Was it to appear exotic in both markets? perhaps the respective terms were easier to trademark in each domain. maybe they were a small scrappy game company making it up as they went, there was no real motive behind the names. They just called the english translation what the japanese version was known by at that time.
- astura 4y agoYou're overthinking this, abbreviation of loanwords is just what is done in Japanese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contracted_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_abbreviated_and_contr...