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[-] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 45 points 4 months ago

For what it's worth, this doesn't sound quite as stupid in Japanese.

An ideal translation would be like:

"What's 'Swiftness'?"

"It's an attack that that increases your Pokemon's speed!"

But of course the already-established English translation of the move is not Swiftness but Extreme Speed and that's what the translators had to use and so they both sound like idiots

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not sure about the original pokemon audio so idk if this is applicable, but it got me thinking: it would be cool if localizers/dubbers inverted the languages so foreign speech was still foreign.

One of my favorite animes, the twelve kingdoms, has a dub that appears to do exactly that: has a lot of language play and it tricked me into learning some japanese while thinking I was learning about a fictional fantasy language

[-] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The English transcript is fine, the meme is just wrong:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=N4qqX5Tjsoo "It's an attack that increases a Pokemons speed, and by using it during battle it will almost guarantee you the first attack."

[-] DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Your idea made me think of Monster, which doesn't do any of that at all. The main character speaks English, japanese, and German but to the audience, he just speaks English (in the dub). There is an episode in which he is traveling with a German kid and they meet an old british couple. All the voice actors speak English, but the kid and old couple can't communicate at all, and the main character translates for them. All in English lol

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

I've watched monster multiple times and I completely forgot about that. Yep

[-] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Maybe because there's already a move called "Swift"?

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Wait, I wasn’t going to post this until tomorrow! How did it get posted so extremely speedily after my last meme!?

[-] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago

Once you had a taste of the extreme it's difficult to hold back

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 9 points 4 months ago

I mean it's just doing zoomies

[-] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago

In his defense, I'm not sure what May was expecting.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 4 months ago

Don’t lie Brock. It’s when you give your Pokemon, some meth.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

It's the red meth. Red makes you go faster.

this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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