Weirdness: Now You Can Even Find More "Pokémon" In The Dictionary

Pokemon is just massively overrated at this point...Go isn't THAT great people. -.-

Nice, now I know what term 'Pokemon" means.

@AlexOlney
Psh, you think that's bad? Back in the late nineties, an anchorwoman in Italy pronounced it taking the accented "e" into account - that's right, PawKAYmohn. That was atrocious.

@AlexSora89
You haven't heard atrocious until you've heard NINEtendo

@shaneoh
Who even came up with that?!

@Tsurii I agree. I think the games are good, but at this point the series massively overrated. I have said as much at my high school. Which was a very bad idea.......

@AlexOlney All I can imagine is all of those Ducklett saying "You came to the wrong neighbourhood" and immediately pulling out shivs.

@AlexOlney In the second pronunciation you wrote, what are those horseshoe and backward C things? ...and is that a couple of schwas I see where there should be vowels? In the first pronunciation, what's with the colon in the middle?

Pokyman?

@AlexSora89
Bloke I used to work with, good thing gaming didn't come up often

On the local news the other day, I found it funny when an older news presenter who clearly know nothing about pokemon was discussing Go and said that he borrowed a colleague's phone and caught a "jigg-err-lee-puff". He said it in such an awkward way as well.

Plural: Pokeymans

virtual pocket monsters?

Oh man, I remember the "Pokémon is dead/dying" people few months/years ago.

How could they not put "pocket monster" in the dictionary?? Seems like a big oversight to me.

@shaneoh
Bloke? I'll have to look this word up...

Should the e be pronounced like ay because of the accent? Poh-Kay-Mahn

Well, I'm not surprised, Derp is in the Dictionary after all.

@Megumi_Sagano "Go isn't THAT great"
Implying Go is good...
xDDDDDDDDDDDDD

What? Do your research; its Poh-KAY-mon!

Ohohoho....
Now Pokemon take over the world.!
Newest Oxford dictionary must mentioned definition of Pokemon.

No mention of evolution in its definition? Or the fact that they arouse an inexplicable desire to "catch 'em all"?

At this rate we might start seeing Pokemon courses being offered at college(s)

Norwegian board of language had a statement about how Pokémon is supposed to be written in Norway. (Capitalized as it's a trademark, the é remains for the same reason... shocking development I know. )

It seems the amount of free advertisement this game can get has no limits, everyone wants to be in on the craze.

Meanwhile those of us whom have played Ingress for several years feel our turf is being invaded.

Don't get me wrong i thing the game is nifty, better then ingress in some respects, but sorely lacking in depth, especially when it comes to strategy and planning in the competition between the teams, compared to the other game. If you ever feel like you want a similar game but with more ways to compete for control with the other team and where the every POI in the game plays a role, give ingress a try.

@kotag ...What's wrong with Go? It isn't that great? But it isn't bad either...

I think some of you have forgotten that a game doesn't need to become complex. Sometimes simple games are the best and in all honesty I prefer the simplicity of Pokemon GO.

It's easy to get into, and because of that it's easy to share with EVERYONE in the world, not just gamers who have an advanced understanding of controls, stats, and UI layouts.

@shaneoh When I was growing up in the eighties, my mother and all her friends called it "INtendAH". You boys run along and play your Intendah machines. Mom... for good grief... NIN.. NINtendO. You sound like a hillbilly when you say it that way.

Now when they design a dictionary Pokemon we will have come full circle.

The definitions are good, but they screwed up the pronunciation! The second syllable is a long "a" sound, people! Well, at least they spelled it correctly.

@Megumi_Sagano
Just me in the anti mobile games group.
Don't take it too seriously as I haven't made a real case of pros and cons for this.

@BYTZ007
Dear god, I can't even imagine that

@AlexSora89
Bloke = man

@shaneoh
Oh, thank you! Forgot to look it up due to the Deadpool books I brought home today (the Identity Wars crossover storyline featuring Deadpool, Hulk and Spider-Man is one of the most enjoyably crazy alternate universe stories I have ever read).
I remember a NLer called @MadAussieBloke, which is where I first found the word, but never searched the word...

@AlexSora89
Comics! Nice. Not a huge fan of a lot of the Marvel IPs myself, more of a DC guy.
Bloke is mostly a British and Australian word, so it doesn't surprise me that it's an Aussie where you learned it. It's a good, informal, word.

@shaneoh
I'll say, I'm slowly getting into DC as well, but as of now I have only four books (a Superman anthology book, a Batman one, the anniversary edition of The Killing Joke. and the first half of the Emperor Joker storyline); the rest of my bookshelf is under Marvel's absolute monopoly, save for its highest floor hosting my manga books (Himekawa's Zelda included).
Yeah, there are still a lot of English words I've yet to learn, as well as the differences between British English and American English. It gets tricky at times!

We say ''poh kay mon'' here in the Netherlands

@AlexSora89 That's how you say it. Legit.

@gamerphil07
How I say Pokémon, you mean? Because in my language, the pronunciation is poe-kae-mon.

@AlexSora89 I mean the correct way. You do pronounce the accent.

@gamerphil07
In English, surely; Italian is another beast entirely - the word's accent, believe it or not, is placed on the initial "o".
Which makes all of this very weird - as far as my knowledge goes, accents are not written in English words, while the Italian language is more or less filled with accented words (and every verb in the singular first person, as well as in the singular third person, ends with an accent); and yet, Pokémon is pronounced with the accent placed on the "o".
For extra weirdness, though, the word "pocket" also places the accent on the "o", so make of this what you will...
EDIT: Here's the catchy opening theme we came up with when the franchise was at the peak of its relevance (although I find the English opening song to be far superior, but I'm part of a small minority in my country...). The word Pokémon here is pronounced just as you hear it.

@AlexSora89 Very interesting information! Thanks for filling me in! Also, I'm going to have Italian Pokémon stuck in my head for quite a while now.

@gamerphil07
Yep, that opening won the "cartoon" section (yeah, the general public uses the word "cartoon" as a catch-all term here, just roll with it) in a show meant to pick up the best openings in several categories. The singer you heard, Giorgio Vanni, also sang several other anime openings, most famously the various Dragon Ball songs, with the DBZ one infamously spoiling the first episodes' worth of plot in its first lines ("Who are you? Goku, you don't know / but soon, you're about to find out / and then, you will disappear" - basically, the alien race twist and Goku's first death all rolled in ten seconds of music!).
If you're curious about some more weirdness from good ol' Boot, just ask.

@AlexSora89 That's genuinely funny! >.< I'm going to look up some of this.

@AlexSora89
The Killing Joke! I'm looking forward to the animated movie. I don't have many DC comics myself, but I've been picking up a fortnightly publication produced by Eaglemoss. It has a hardback book featuring a particular story arc as well as an additional comic at the end. So this fortnight is Lex Luthor: Man of Steel and the additional comic is Lex's first appearance. It's good value for $20AU. The Italian Eaglemoss website doesn't have them, but it wouldn't hurt to check back every so often if you're interested in case they show up.

@shaneoh
Trust me, the plan is still to pick up all the most important storylines I've missed once I get a job. In Italy there are two newspapers, namely the Corriere Della Sera (Nightly Courier) and the Gazzetta Dello Sport (Sports Gazette), that join forces on a regular basis when it comes to release collections of trade paperbacks of comics, which is how I gained access to most of Marvel's output (and the entirety of the Peter Parker era of Ultimate Spider-man, the same run that gave us the 2004 game on GameCube and Nintendo DS); if I recall correctly there are other newspaper companies doing the same for DC, but their recollections of DC storylines (which include the aforementioned Emperor Joker volume) have been printed a long time ago, and I haven't heard of anything similar ever since. Which means I'll have to wait until I have the right amount of money and, of course, until I find the right stand at any of the local comic-cons (most likely the Cartoomics held at Milan at the end of March, which is my best chance as far as I'm concerned).