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I have to say this

Jorge 2.O

Jorge 2.O

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I love pokemon with all my heart, it forms a colossal part of my live from my childhood to today, but ever since the very first episode of the show or the first video game I've noticed something that makes no seance, if every animal in that world is a pokemon then how do they know words like bird, fish, worm, etc. point a pokedex at Pidgey and it will say that it's a bird type, at a Magikarp and it will say that it's a fish pokemon. In that world there is no such thing as a normal animal so how the hell do they know how to categorize them as bird types or fish types?!?!
 
Things like "fish" and "bird" could likely be classed as scientific terms in the Pokemon world much like "pachyderm" is the scientific term for hoofed/clubbed footed mammals here on earth.

That, and yeah, it's a cartoon that draws inspiration from the real world. It's going to have real world terms just plopped in there to make the world easier to understand.
 
"Animal" probably isn't a word in the common vocabulary, but it could be a word with a scientific useage there. (Having to do with life or, more properly, spirit.)

But "bird" and "fish" probably are in the common vocabulary, and "creature" could be as well--I'm pretty sure that "creature" has been used in the beginning of games. ("Creatures that inhabit this world called pokemon," or something like that.) They could be valid and purposeful scientific words as well, considering the (relative to us) lack of fish and birds.

Anyway, if all animals are pokemon, and all pokemon are creatures with will, individuality and movement and such, then I can think of no reason why anyone would come up with the word/designation "animal" at all. Golem isn't simply something spun off a rock in the pokemon world, but a living thing that is rock-like. So it's actually more closely related with an "animal" like Pidgey than you might think. As well, Cacturne may be more closely related to Timburr than it is to a cactus.

"Animal" would simply have too wide a definition anyway (with much of any possible distinction blurred), while "bird' and "fish" have distinctive qualities, in this world and in the pokemon world as well.
 
I like to believe that there's a universal translator that translates from the Pokemon World's language(s) to our own.
 
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