Comment on Pika Pika

• Cintari@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s… what I said?

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    • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Its light in general, not lightning

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      • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “pika” on its own is a sudden flash of light. This onomatopeia is very old (edo era old). What kind of light flashes do you think you’d find 400 years ago? There was pretty much just lightning. Not to be confused with the repeated “pika pika” which like the other commenter said indicates more of a glimmer or shiny and is way more common today.

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• Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think these are the same root?

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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