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Lance and Bill

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When you played the R/B/Y Versions of Pokemon in the past(1998-2000), did you think that people like Lance and Bill would actually come from another region instead of Kanto?
 
Doesn't Bill have an accent? It's been ages since I played the original games, so I can't remember, but I know in Special he has a deep Southern accent (or in Japanese, an Osaka accent). So it's obvious he's not from that area originally.
 
Yes he did, I have that episode on Video (Old School!). He did have an english accent, but it sucked.
 
And why would you get the feeling they were foreign just from playing the games...?
 
Well, I didn't get that feeling from playing R/B/Y, but it is mentioned in G/S/C that Bill's family lives in Goldenrod.
 
That wouldn't really be foreign, would it? I mean, Johto is extremely close, and they seem to share a common goverment (atleast a E4).
 
Holly Jolly Habunake said:
That wouldn't really be foreign, would it? I mean, Johto is extremely close, and they seem to share a common goverment (atleast a E4).
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The original poster didn't use the world "foreign". He was asking if there was any indication in the original games that Bill and Lance were actually from another region, Johto, a fact which came to our attention in later games.

On second thought, his question is less specific than that - did it occur to anyone that the region of Kanto was one of many? Considering that the region was only named in the Japanese versions at the time, the majority of players simply thought of Kanto as the Pokémon world.
 
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Yeah, in fact, I can't remember hearing Kanto used in the English Version either.
 
"Very well. If you won't leave voluntarily then we will just have to use our superior linguistic skills to convince you to leave."

But yeah, it's a stereotype from the nineteenth century!
 
I just had to say that 'cause it happens in every American cartoon. The English are either really posh or they have an awful cockney accent (I have neither) which only Londoners have (The cockney accent).
P.S. For some reason the North East calls Southerners well, Southerners and Westerners, wessies. (there's usually 'Bloody' in there as well). I would know as I live in the North East.
 
Lol, most companies seem to suck at English Accents.

Isn't that right Bastion?

Although, how are American's portrayed in British cartoons?
 
Good point. Your always potrayed as annoying tourists who tell everyone they don't know what they're doing (the peole they're talking to) and then go on to say "Now back in the States we would have...." and so on. Like in the film Flushed Away. The World Cup finals (Footbal/Soccer) are on a giant screen and an American tourist jumps up and down yelling: "Pick up the ball! Pick up the ball! Dang it, these British don't know a thing about football!"
 
I've always wanted to hear a British person poorly imitating an American accent, just so I know what the British think we sound like.
 
I'm just glad for the lack of Australian characters on Pokemon. Faked Australian accents are HORRIBLE. Far worse than American or English accents. I think it's because of the lack of Australian shows on American T.V, that a lot of Americans have no idea what we really sound like. Americans base what they know of Australian culture mostly on the late Steve Irwin. That isn't a bad thing, but when they think that we all live in huts and ride kangaroos to school (a friend of mine lived in America for three years,) it does become a concern that we are seen as almost a laughing stock.
 
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