+1,992 It'd be really weird if animals were like pokemon in that they said their names instead of making sounds. So instead of going "Meow" a cat would walk around going "CAAAAAAT! CAAAAAT! CATCATCATCAT!" Amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

HUMAAAAN!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nicholas Cage NICKooOoooOolaas Caaagee (Its funny because he is his own animal)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Loving your own comment? That's a paddlin'.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Homo-sapien......Homooo-saaaaaaaapien!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

MAAAALE....feeeeemale

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ALIENNNNNNNNN

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well we could've just named them Meow and made both our lives a lot easier.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(Your+name+(optional)): I believe Pokemon are named after the sound they make, so they would have been named Meow and not Cat. This poster doesn't know the canon of Pokemon but posts anyways.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"This poster doesn't know the canon of Pokemon but posts anyways." This is a bloody outrage.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

GET OUT THE PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES, IT'S TIME FOR A FUCKING WITCH HUNT!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually, I remember a few episodes where characters explain how a Pokemon got their name, and it had nothing to do with their cries. I guess they picked them up afterwards?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It would be pretty odd if some scientist said 'I name you Pikachu' and then the entire Pikachu species learned that word and went around using it to communicate.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You're right. I guess that's the one aspect of Pokemon that's even slightly unrealistic.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Even if Pokemon is unrealistic, that doesn't mean it wouldn't be MUCH more logical if their cries were a natural behavior that has been developed over a long period of time and which was used as the basis for their name. If we're looking at problems, why do Pokemon instantly develop a new way of talking when they evolve, why are their cries able to convey a variety of meanings when used the exact same way, and how come their cries sound so much like english syllables? Yes, there are many aspects of Pokemon that are unrealistic, but when considering two options, I don't see why we shouldn't pick the more realistic one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not arguing with you. I'm just pointing out a memory that's much fresher than I'd like to admit. I agree that your way makes much more sense, but I really don't think that much thought was put into the early episodes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You might be right, I don't remember any episode where they actually talked about how Pokemon are named. I was making a logical assumption, which I suppose doesn't count for much when talking about Pokemon.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Don't put too much confidence in me. All I remember is something about how Muk is named after it's habitat, and I might've made that up

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think I've ever heard a Muk speak. It really seemed to be only the cute ones who talked at all.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Muk talked a lot when Oak was on the video phone. He liked to "hug" him. Please don't judge me for my lagre amount of Pokemon related knowledge. It only extends to about half of the first season.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except that only applies to the anime. Because in the games, which actually came first, none of their cries use English syllables. Gosh, Carter, get it together. :>

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But this post is only about the anime, and the debate should be about the anime too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

OBJECTION! The post doesn't specify!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you can only think of one aspect of Pokemon that is unrealistic?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hope you're being sarcastic there. I know I was.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Then how did they name the pokemon that DON'T say their own name? I mean, they didn't name Onix "BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORGH!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hate to be a douche, but Onix is actually saying his original Japanese name, Iwark.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Didn't know his original name. That's not being a douche, by the way. It's all in HOW you say it and you didn't say it in a rude manner. Fair enough about Onix (iwark). What about Gyarados? Tyrannitar? Dragonite (it's mostly the pseudo legends that don't say their names) but what of them?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If I was to blindly hypothesize, I would guess that occasionally they do say things which were similiar enough to human speech to become their names. However, if that's not the case, I don't know how their names would be chosen. They are still the exception though, and not the rule.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or what if we called animals by what they say so a cat would be a "meow". Or maybe I need to get some more sleep. That made sense when I thought it but now as I read it again, it makes no sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, it makes some sense. It makes more sense than animals just knowing what we decided to call them. A cat might not say "cat" in English, it might say it in French or German or Japaneese, so the way you suggested makes more sense because it would be the same in every language.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So a cat in France would say "Chat"?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And in Japan, "Nyaa".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wouldn't it say "Neko"?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nyan Cat!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But humans gave them those names ...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Obviously they hear the word cat used so often they begin to understand it's referring to them and then adapt into a sound they can make.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...that's how babies learn to speak. Cats would be talking

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, but in the actual example this post uses, it would be similar to Pokemon. Pokemon are only able to communicate using their 'cries', which consist of one word. The likelihood of a cat hearing ONE specific word out of the hundreds that would be used in their presence and then adapting that ONE word into a sound they can make that resembles the actual human word cat is very low, whereas babies pick up on a much wider variety of noises as opposed to only one. ...also cats can't talk

by Anonymous 12 years ago

CATS CAN'T TALK?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nope, it's just a myth lolcatz would like you to believe.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Pokemon are walking onomatopoeia.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They already do, and have for the last six and a half years. Where have you been?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or their Latin names, "Felis catus! Felis catus!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Human: Human Human Human? other Human: Human Human Human.... Human? Puppy: puppypuppy PUPPEH blue footed boobie: BOOBIE!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

narwhallllllll Narwhal!!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh hai,i already commented on this post... moving on.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

One more time?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Flying? Flying guinea pig! Guinea pig! Guinea pig! Pig?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Funny thing is, I actually call guinea pigs 'pigs', because it's cuter. XD

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'll have you know, that is a stereotype and it is derogatory. You should be ashamed of yourself. CAN I GET A MOD OVER HERE TO BAN THIS GUY, PLEASE AND THANK YOU?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Uh... sorry? Also... anonymous. And female. :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

penguin!penguin!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

PEN! PEN! GUINNNNN!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Octopus! octopus...OCTOPUSS!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

what if how they spoke is really their name? maybe a dog's real name is 'woof'

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Didn't you see the other 20 comments above you?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ASS! ASS! ASS! Cockcockcockcockcock Ppppuuuusssssyy

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Those are all technically animals...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You know who ELSE is technically an animal? My MOM!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

unicorn unicorn unicorn. hippogriff hippogriff? SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH SLOTH!!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i imagine a sloth sounding more like: Slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooth

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the billions on little voices shouting, bacteria! bacteria!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You might not see them, but they're there!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would I sleep at night? I would close My eyes and hear "Spiiiiiidddddddder! Spiderspiderspider!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not erally scared of bugs generally, but if it was like this, I would so be. But how would that be for humans? Person 1: HUMAN!!!! HUMAN HUMAN HUMAN?! Person 2: Human human human. Human human. And everyone would just pretend they knew what each other was saying. You know, everyone should do that on the first day of school and fool the teachers XD

by Anonymous 12 years ago

As creepy as that would be I'm gonna go ahead and be the boring buzz kill who points out spiders can't "talk" since they have no vocal chords. The closest they can get to communication is through tapping objects, or in certain cases such as mating, they dance.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

TROLL! IN THE DUNGEON! TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

tiger: Panthera tigris! Panthera tigris!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except it wouldn't be weird. It would then be considered normal.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

lol imagine going to the zoo and finding animals randomly crying out HIPPOPOTAMUS!!!! ELEPHANT!!! GIRAFFE!! LLAMA!! that would be awesome. and loud.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This epic post created such a weird image in my head.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

PEESASHIT! Peesa? Peesaaaaaa.... SHIIIIIIIT! PEESASHIT-SHIT! PEESASHIT!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How does this work for Pokemon not based on animals?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the hybrid pokemon would just say the two names of what they were based off of "turtle? turtlesquirrel. TUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRTTTLLLLLLEEEEEESQUIRREL!" that would work until they realize it is a tounge twister.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, I meant Pokemon based on inanimate objects, like Litwick or Trubbish or Geodude. You just stumble into a rock on the ground, and it starts shouting "PEBBLE PEBBLE PEBBLE!"?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh my god that would be so fun. I'd be like "hey fluffer, what are you!" and fluffer would be like "..cat." and I'd be like FLUFFER IS A GENIUSSSSS.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

GNATHOSTOMULIDA GNATHOSTOMU- oh fuck this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Surely that could work for almost anything, not just animals...I mean... Croissant! Croissant! Crrrroiiiisssaannntttttt!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

SUUUUUUN! SUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hate to shoot this down, but... There's no sound in space.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Curses! Foiled again!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I feel obligated to say WOOOOOOOBBUFFET

by Anonymous 12 years ago

DAMN! I was gonna do that, but then i saw this, lol.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Why?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wynaut!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

GET OUTTA MY HEAD!!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"spider, spider,spider-" "fly! FLY!! FLY!" "spider, spider!" "FLY!! FLLLLY!! FL-"... "spiiiider."

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A humuhumunukunukuapuaa would say, "fuck you"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Has anyone on here thought about how easy it would be to identify animals if this were true? Person 1: I think it's a deer... Person 2: No, it's definitely an antelope... Animal: GAZELLE!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

......... ... . (A Mute Person)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

@1322661 (DandyLion): way to kill the cheerful mood, man

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can see how I did, but how did anon.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

oh oops, i was just replying to you i guess. my mistake :

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Imagine swimming in the ocean. SHAAAARK!!! SHAARRK!!!! It would be horrifying.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

GOOOOOOOODDD!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It looks like you said good, not God.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know. And I know you know I know.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

More like shArk shArk shArkshArkshArk shark (that's as close to jaws-sounding as I could right it)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/shark.jpg

by Anonymous 12 years ago

TURKEY! tuuurrrrrkey. TURKEY TURKEY TURKEY

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That would make getting food for Thanksgiving so much easier back when people used to catch their own turkeys.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, thanks a lot, God.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=QrkmdHX9JHA This post reminded me of this video haha.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That would be annoying as hell once you went outside. "Ant!" "ANT!" "ant!" "ANt!" "ANT!" "ANT!" "ANT!" It would be even worse if plants could talk too. "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!""ANT!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!" "GRASS!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

SKYYYYYYY!!! CLOUUUDDD!!!!!!!!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

AIR!!!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i think youve got it all wrong... they don't say it cause its their name, its their name cause they say it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

After reading this my mom ran around the house yelling names of animals.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

In my head even inanimate objects are screaming and it's very loud and creepy

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If tampons could speak...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Penis. PENIS. PENISSSSS

by Anonymous 12 years ago

PEDOBEAR PEDO- **cough** Um... I mean, bear! :D

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ZOMBIEEEE! ZOMBIEEEE! ZOMBIEEEE! The apocalypse just got more annoying than ever.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Aaagreed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But wouldn't cats be the only ones who could talk? (Meowth)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We agree.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nah we just fucked up. we should have called them meow.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER MUSHROOM MUSHROOM!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Throw away the rest of your logic. Imagine if thunder didn't sound like it does and just screamed THUUUNDEEEERRRRR!!!! Thunderstorms are suddenly much more entertaining.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

WHAAAAAAALE! WHALE WHALE WHALE! WHAAAAAALE!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That'd be weird if babies didn't cry, they'd say human and nurseries would be even more annoying

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Damn you all, now my mouth hurts from laughing.

by Anonymous 11 years ago