Comment on Pika Pika

• SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.

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  • Cintari@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not according to an interview by the creator of Pikachu, Atsuko Nishida:

    “Since it was an Electric-type Pokémon, I thought ‘pika‘ [the expression of light flashing in Japanese].

    web.archive.org/…/creator-profile-the-creators-of…

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    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s… what I said?

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      • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Its light in general, not lightning

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  • Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Actually, name of many Pokemon are multi layered

    So there is no wrong, but both right

    It is the beauty of Pokemon names and even concepts

    Watch some lockstin and gnoggin if interested in this topic 😇

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    • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah I just think it’s kind of neat how the names of English pokemon are formed in a similar way to how they are in Japanese.

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think these are the same root?

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’re the same. The “pika” is from “hika”, which refers to light.

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