Althought I would ordinarily encourage the use of the Japanese names of 
people, places, etc. in fanfics, in the case of Pokemon fanfics I would 
advise against it because there are just too damn many of them. When you add 
up the names of people, places, objects, and pokemon, you have over 300 
names. It is not reasonable to expect that the majority of the audience on 
the FFML know most or all of these 300+ names, nor is it reasonable to 
either expect them to learn them for the mere purpose of using them instead 
of the American names in fanfics, or to add a chart explaining each and 
every one of these names to each fic using them.

A possible compromise for those who wish to use the Japanese names anyway 
would be to use the Japanese names for people and places and retain the 
American names for objects (like "pokedex" instead of "pokemon zukan", 
"Super Potion" instead of "ii kizu gusuri", etc.) and for the names of the 
Pokemon themselves.Phil

prohackr@hotmail.com


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