>Looker canonically does not speak english, as seen in the XY postgame where he can't understand an english-speaking tourist in Kalos (this is changed to japanese in the english version)
>despite this, he was seen able to communicate perfectly in Unova two years earlier, as well as showing up in Alola two years later
>in SV Salvatore visits Unova and reveals they speak the same language as in Paldea
How do you feel about Poke!USA speaking spanish, not english?
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You have no idea how schizo you sound, huh
>character who canonically can't speak english communicates fine in a region that is later revealed to speak the same language as not!Spain
What's exactly schizoid about this
They all speak in pokemonese
>Unovan gets isekai'd to Hisui and seems to have no problem settling in with the Pearl Clan as if there isn't a language barrier (maybe he had time to learn the language?)
>Alola has its own language (alola, Keokeo, kahuna, etc) but everyone seems to mostly speak (You)r set language
>Kalosians and Paldeans sometimes speak their native language but again, mostly speak in the game's set language despite being in their native regions
Languages are janky in media as a whole because of barriers. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has random Americans being fluent in Japanese if you have your game set to Japanese audio. It's just a limit that can't be helped.
Considering the way written languages aren't readable to us here in the real world, that might be the case.
Salvatore's class is literally about how many different languages are there around the world, it's only Unova that happens to speak the same language as Paldea for some reason
don't think to hard about any aspect of the pokemon universe, there is very little thought put into proper function and zero consistency throughout.
Its a lot more consistent once you remove headcanon-based contradictions.
> it's only Unova that happens to speak the same language as Paldea for some reason
There exists real countries far away from each other that speak the same language anon.
Its not a Paldea-Unova thing, the characters usually don't have issues understanding each other when from different regions.
Anon it's not that unovans understands paldean like americans (think) they kinda understand spanish, Salvatore explicitly states the language is THE SAME as in Paldea. It's like if north america, not only the spics, talked in spanish like the spaniards (with differences sure, like american english vs european english, but still the same language)
true!
but nerds like to argue
That's cool I guess good to be multilingual
Looker is dead
Maybe it was a accent thing
My guess is that everyone can speak japanese and Paldea and Unova also speak spanish, while Kalos speaks french. I guess Galar is the only known region where english is the main language
So the lingua Franca of the pokemon world is Japanese? Neat theory
Side not Salvatore pretty cute
The canon language is Japanese, everything else isn't canon
Looker is also a Faller. So it's possible that was later in his timeline and had since learned.
We met Looker when he "fell", it was in ORAS, years before Unova
ORAS is not the proper timeline. Events have shifted 10 years into the future in it. They never explain anything further
I sad his timeline, not ours.
The frick you mean, Pt/BW Looker is either at an earlier point of his life time than XY/SM Looker or a completely different version of him, if he didn't know english in XY then he didn't in BW, even if he learned later for Alola games
Unova is supposed to be New York City, and you're surprised that he could speak to people there in Spanish?
Shut up, Biden.
First of all, you are still fricked if you only speak spanish, and second, only Opelucid is NY, and you don't even meet him there first.
>english is contained in britbongland
The Pokemon world is truly an utopia
Pokémon world building is absolute ass. They are extremely inconsistent about the languages and just say whatever the frick is convenient. Different languages seem to exist yet everyone from every region can understand each other. Salvatore names "French" by name yet there is no France. And despite Kalos being PokéFrance, there is no such thing as "Kalosian".
They aren't thinking about this at all. They just do whatever, there is no consistent rules about the languages in the Pokémon world.
> Different languages seem to exist yet everyone from every region can understand each other.
This isn't an inconsistency.
>Salvatore names "French" by name yet there is no France.
If you can accept there's no France there's no reason to be projecting more of the real world.
>Kalos being PokéFrance
You literally just said there's no France.
>there is no such thing as "Kalosian".
There quite literally is.
You're the inconsistent one.
>This isn't an inconsistency.
Yes it is. How come everyone can understand each other even when from far away regions and different languages exist? WHY do different languages exist when apparently everyone speaks some sort of lingua franka? Why do we never see people speak other languages or having trouble understanding others from different regions?
>You literally just said there's no France.
Stop being obtuse, Kalos is fricking obviously based on France. People say French words there.
>There quite literally is.
Then how does it coexist with French? Because I don't think Salvatore every calls it "Kalosian". He also says some Chinese words. Where are those from?
I looked through his quotes but didn't find anything so I'm probably mistaken, my bad. I could've sworn the game says "French" somewhere. Maybe in the langauge class tests.
> How come everyone can understand each other even when from far away regions and different languages exist?
This happens IRL, I don't think you live in the same country I do anon.
> WHY do different languages exist when apparently everyone speaks some sort of lingua franka?
We have seen a small fraction of the world anon.
Just now we can say for sure we even left the first country.
>Why do we never see people speak other languages or having trouble understanding others from different regions?
Because the bulk of characters we see are from regions that speak the same languages.
And we did see that anyways.
>Kalos is fricking obviously based on France
But its not France. Its a fictional place inspired by France, it isn't limited to what France is because if it were, it wouldn't have pokemon.
>Then how does it coexist with French?
You have to prove he said "french" which I don't see neither in the bulbapedia transcripts nor the league club transcripts. Again, before pointing a contradiction, make sure it actually exists. You'd be surprised.
Let me guess, you're American. In that case, I highly doubt you even fully understand the concept of foreign languages.
> you're American
Nope.
>I highly doubt you even fully understand the concept of foreign languages
You're the one who doesn't though. Like all realgays, you've no idea how the actual real world you worship works.
Maybe you're confusing it with Diamond and Pearl?
>Salvatore names "French" by name
Can you post pics?
The games do use the word Kalosian btw.
>Looker canonically does not speak english, as seen in the XY postgame where he can't understand an english-speaking tourist in Kalos (this is changed to japanese in the english version)
That means he speaks the Kalos language, not english or japanese.
They aren't the real languages because they aren't the same countries in the first place.
The very fact that Salvatore says this should clue you in there's no "pokeUSA", so I'm not sure why you now suddenly you care about what the actual source say.
>semantics
Okay, so Looker speaks Kalos language, represented by french, but not the language represented by english, and said language isn't used in Unova, rather, they use the same language as Paldea, which is represented as spanish.
Better, autist?
>so Looker speaks Kalos language
yes
> represented by french
no. There's your mistake.
>Salvatore explicitly states the language is THE SAME as in Paldea
Yes, I never said otherwise.
> It's like if north america, not only the spics, talked in spanish like the spaniards
Which is not the case in real life.
Which means the pokemon world does not work like the real world.
Which means every assumption that's merely based on that and nothing else is wrong.
>the language of the region based on france isn't represented by french
What did he mean by this?
Read the reply to the other anon, try to figure it out.
>not every single aspect of this fictional world inspired in the real world is exactly like reality, therefore you should stop trying to apply real world logic to it
Thanks for confirming you are plain stupid I guess
>therefore you should stop trying to apply real world logic to it
I never said this.
morons forget Pokemon is a utopia (in general) so them having a universal lingua franca makes since. Which generally is your game setting but canonically is probably Japanese.
Regions being influenced by real countries does not mean they are those countries. So Unova and Paldea speaking the same language is a non-problem.
Also on top of all this Pokémon lore constantly changes and is disregarded, see any Pokédex entry. So it’s another case of Pokemon being a subpar game and just not being consistent or maybe it is. It just doesn’t matter.
>universal lingua franca makes since
The character in the Op's pic whole deal is explaining to you that there's different languages in the world.
Those just aren't just in any of the places we visited.
This. It's easier to assume japanese is the most common language because japanese franchise, and then other regions have their own language, some shared, others unique. Paldea and Unova happen to share language, Kalos has its own, Galar has one too, poke!China and poke!Italy also have languages, etc etc
>assume
we don't need to. We very clearly see the characters from the games we play in having no issue interacting with others from different regions.
Looker himself has no issue understanding Sinnoh, Hoenn, Alola, Kalos and Unova(thus, Paldea) languages. They aren't different.
Also, keep in mind Salvatore's classes are mistranslated, in the original text he says language changes on different countries, not regions.
Are you implying all those regions you listed are part of the same country?
No
It's cuz the Americhads left to colonize Mars and the Spaniards and Portugeuse were allowed to have America.
Looker shows up in ORAS on the beach with amnesia. This took place before XY because also in the postgame you witness Mr. Bonding's origin. So maybe the amnesia affected his linguistic abilities.