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[farla]

I can't even tell if this is a joke or not.

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[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

If it is, the misuse of "infer" is a REALLY nice touch. Quite convincing, that.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Every time I look at it I'm more confused.

However, I, as an advocate for the preservation of historical documents, insist that the creators of the game could not be so foolhardy and disrespectful as to alter the original journal entries.

It just hit me that they're seriously using Mewtwo's backstory, which is different in every single adaptation, when claiming saying the text would obviously be preserved in complete stylistic faithfulness because that's how the game creators roll.

[antialiasis.livejournal.com]

What makes that argument even more bizarre is that since Japanese has no such thing as capitalization in the first place, this would only have any meaning at all if the original text was actually in English (or this hypothetical, different-grammar Pokéworld English).

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

It's true, if it's not a joke, whatever the point is is completely unclear. I do recall that RBY capitalized every letter of any important word, proper noun, or pokemon species name. It was around RS or so that it changed to only the first letter being capitalized.

[farla.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's idiotic, but it's not really new (which is bizarre in itself, I guess). A lot of people argue the names are capitalized because the "game creators" decided to do it that way.

[farla.livejournal.com]

RBY and GSC. And it was written PKMN most of the time.

Really, it's like arguing it's canon to highlight important hints to the plot in a different text color or something in some other videogame fandom. It's so obviously a game thing, not a grammar thing.

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

Except in Homestuck.

[farla.livejournal.com]

That's more like the opposite, the different text color is the important plot hint.