Comment on Why do Pokémon have different names in ENG?
DigDoug@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s very unlikely that an English-speaking child in 1998 would have been able to pronounce Zenigame, Hitokage, or Fushigidane, let alone remember them.
Comment on Why do Pokémon have different names in ENG?
DigDoug@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s very unlikely that an English-speaking child in 1998 would have been able to pronounce Zenigame, Hitokage, or Fushigidane, let alone remember them.
creamfresh@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yes. OP seems to have some knowledge on Japanese and may have forgotten how unintuitive the language is to Germanic/Roman native speakers.