Best Pokemon "Woolsey-isms"?

[Ryu Taylor]

"Woolsey-ism: Stuff gets changed during translation to work better in the new language." -TVTropes (for the record, the term is named after Ted Woolsey, translator of FFVI)

Yeah, I already have a thread open for the names of the Pokemon species, but as we all know, much more than that got changed for the better. So let's discuss our favorites.

A few of mine:

-Evil type (yeah, way to contradict the "Pokemon aren't evil" message) to Dark type.

-Soryu City (Japanese) to Opelucid City (English). Although I like Janusia City (French) best. Google "Janus" for the reason why.

-Taurine to Protein.

-Bromhexine to Iron.

-Lysozyme to Calcium.

-Chitosan to Zinc.

-Indometacin to Carbos.

-Urup to Wulfric.

-Four Heavenly Kings to Elite Four.

-Glacial Body to Bittercold.

 

[Beth Pavell]

Oh, any number of attack names, mostly because when literally translated from Japanese they tend to be a bit of a mouthful. Although in accordance with the laws of the universe I'm struggling to think of a really good example off the top of my head

 

[winstein]

Old Chateau and Old Gateau is my favourite because of how well both words rhyme and fit thematically in the game that introduced both of them. It's a shame that we got RageCandyBar instead of Cake Of Rage to match Lake of Rage.

Thanks for reading.

 

[Jimmy 3 People 0]

Probably Crossroad Killing to Night Slash. Mainly for the obvious reason of the Pokemon games have a move that is called CROSSROAD KILLING IN JAPANESE-

 

[ReturnofMCH]

all the memes inserted from DPPt onward.