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[Shen]

Are you kidding? I LOVE their cries! I was shattered that they changed them in X/Y. The thing is, I thought that a pokemon only saying its species name was kinda dumb. I find it hard to believe that somehow they all speak a word that humans gave them, regardless of language... Like...what? The only reason they gave pikachu an audio file in a game that came out over 2 years after the originals saying its species was because of the anime, which was the only thing at the time suggesting that pokemon could only produce vocalisations of species classifications given to them by humans. xP

Have you ever thought that, perhaps, the Pokémon saying their names came BEFORE the humans gave them their names?

My theory is that the Pokémon saying their names were what taught humans to name certain things as certain words. Charmander could teach people about char being a word for fire, as well as a reptile of its stature, all in one, just as an example. And that could be why the entire world speaks the same language despite how many ethnicities there seem to be all over the place (sometimes).

[Suicune's Fire]

Have you ever thought that, perhaps, the Pokémon saying their names came BEFORE the humans gave them their names?

My theory is that the Pokémon saying their names were what taught humans to name certain things as certain words. Charmander could teach people about char being a word for fire, as well as a reptile of its stature, all in one, just as an example. And that could be why the entire world speaks the same language despite how many ethnicities there seem to be all over the place (sometimes).

Well yeah, but somehow that seems less believable. xD Also I don't know that it's confirmed that there's only one spoken language. That might just be for readability in the games and anime made for children. It's certainly a thing that some people speak small amounts of other languages, like Professor Sycamore speaking French. "Pikachu" seems to mean nothing in English, and pachirisu, and lucario... I dunno. xD I know you're trying to view it from an opposite side but it just seems odd.