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We just going to ignore Fatalitee? That seems out of place.
I know right? They translated an english wordplay into an english wordplay!
The German word "fatal" doesn't mean the same as English "fatal". It's more "disastrous" or " awkward" than "deadly", closer to "fate" than "death".
Except, they didn't. The word "fatal" is a German adjective also deriving from the same Latin root word as the English word "fatal", but contrary to the English word that means "deadly", the German word means something akin to "fateful".
So they translated an english wordplay to a german wordplay, which happens to be a false friend to an english word, thus making another, separate wordplay in English.
If anything, they translated a latin wordplay (sinister is also derived from a latin word) to another latin wordplay.
It's always kinda weird when english native speakers believe that english is the one original language of the world, when most of their language happens to just be German, French and Latin all jumbled together into a primitive mess.
I’m Dutch, and really into linguistics, I don’t believe English is the original Germanic language, I just made a fun comment because the new name still worked in english. :)
I mean Tea = Tee Deadly = Fatal
I know right, it's crazy how they just threw out a much newer Pokémon alongside two gen 1's