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Old 10-28-2011, 01:22 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis View Post
Pokemon is an abbreviation for Pocket Monsters. Japanese love using "Engrish". You know what they're trying to trasliterate from foreign languages when they use katakana.
Of course it is an abbreviation for Pocket Monsters. Everyone knows that. But as used in US videogames and the US cartoon show, Pokemon was plural as well.
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