Which cities do you think should be renamed?

[Andros 1337]

I was wondering, are there any city names in the Pokémon world do you think should be renamed?

I personally think Vermilion City should have been named Carroty City. The reason is because Vermilion is the same color as Cinnabar, however, it is clearly obvious that Vermilion City is colored orange while Cinnabar Island is colored red. Vermilion is an orange-red pigment produced from the orange-red mineral Cinnabar. However, the Japanese names for both cities do NOT refer to the same color.

What cities do you think should be renamed?

 

[hurristat]

I was wondering, are there any city names in the Pokémon world do you think should be renamed?

I personally think Vermilion City should have been named Carroty City. The reason is because Vermilion is the same color as Cinnabar, however, it is clearly obvious that Vermilion City is colored orange while Cinnabar Island is colored red. Vermilion is an orange-red pigment produced from the orange-red mineral Cinnabar. However, the Japanese names for both cities do NOT refer to the same color.

What cities do you think should be renamed?

"Carrot" is not a color nor is "carroty."

I personally think "cyan city" would have worked better than Cerulean, but what are you going to do?

 

[Laterose]

I really wish there had been a Puce City.

 

[Chao]

I was wondering, are there any city names in the Pokémon world do you think should be renamed?

I personally think Vermilion City should have been named Carroty City. The reason is because Vermilion is the same color as Cinnabar, however, it is clearly obvious that Vermilion City is colored orange while Cinnabar Island is colored red. Vermilion is an orange-red pigment produced from the orange-red mineral Cinnabar. However, the Japanese names for both cities do NOT refer to the same color.

What cities do you think should be renamed?

"Carrot" is not a color nor is "carroty."

I personally think "cyan city" would have worked better than Cerulean, but what are you going to do?

Carroty City sounds weird. I think Vermilion City and Cerulean City is fine (Maybe it's because I like exotic-sounding and meaningful names). For Cinnabar Island, I think Crimson Island would fit its original meaning more, but it's not like they could rename the cities and towns, lest they enrage thousands of fans.

Although it would have been nice if some of the Unova cities have more exotic names, Driftveil and Anville just sounds dull for me, at least they did try to maintain the theme naming.

 

[The Knights of Wario Land]

I think Mistralton City should be changed to something that sounds more air-like, such as Skylim City or Proppelant City.

 

[redyakuza]

gen1 cities are all colours. can anyone tell me what the other gens are named after?

 

[Space Opera]

gen1 cities are all colours. can anyone tell me what the other gens are named after?

I don't know about Hoenn or Sinnoh, but the Johto cities are named after plants/trees, and Unova cities are named after types of clouds.

 

[Composer]

Castelia City,Nimbasa City, and Unova region sound better in Japanese version.

 

[Articwolf10]

Kanto is colors
Johto is Plants
Hoenn is compound words; Fort Tree/Little Root/Lilly Cove)
Sinnoh not really sure though several are counpoundwords
Unova: clouds


I don't thin any towns should be renamed...

 

[Chao]

Kanto is colors
Johto is Plants
Hoenn is compound words; Fort Tree/Little Root/Lilly Cove)
Sinnoh not really sure though several are counpoundwords
Unova: clouds


I don't thin any towns should be renamed...

I don't think "compound word" is considered a theme.

In the Japanese version:
Kanto and Johto are colors
Hoenn is probably plants
Sinnoh is archaic Japanese words
Isshu is patterns

 

[βƹβƹ ɱɪɢηѻη]

Johto:
(BOLDED is for Plants, flowers, etc.) (ITALICIZED is for colors)
New Bark
Cherrygrove
Violet (it's also a color)
Azalea
Goldenrod (also a color)
Ecruteak, Ecru is a color.
Olivine (Olive)/Olivine
Cianwood
Mahogany
Blackthorn
So, Johto isn't only Plant-themed. At least 6 cities are color-themed.

Hoenn:
Like what 捷克羅姆 said, compound words is not a theme, it's just combining two words into a name.
Littleroot
Oldale
Petalburg
Rustboro
Dewford
Slateport
Mauville
Sootopolis

While Hoenn seems to have some colors in some of their cities, Hoenn also has city suffixes. But that's not really a theme, like Unova's cloud theme.

Sinnoh's cities, like Hoenn's, has compounded words but that's clearly not a theme. Does it even need one?

As for what I think about renaming cities, I too, think that the names are fine.

 

[Lord Clowncrete]

Honestly speaking, the current names are pretty good.I don't want the cities to be explicitly named after some colour.(like red city or blue city,etc.)

 

[bigv]

Johto:
(BOLDED is for Plants, flowers, etc.) (ITALICIZED is for colors)
New Bark
Cherrygrove
Violet (it's also a color)
Azalea
Goldenrod (also a color)
Ecruteak, Ecru is a color.
Olivine (Olive)/Olivine
Cianwood
Mahogany
Blackthorn
So, Johto isn't only Plant-themed. At least 6 cities are color-themed.

Hoenn:
Like what 捷克羅姆 said, compound words is not a theme, it's just combining two words into a name.
Littleroot
Oldale
Petalburg
Rustboro
Dewford
Slateport
Mauville
Sootopolis

While Hoenn seems to have some colors in some of their cities, Hoenn also has city suffixes. But that's not really a theme, like Unova's cloud theme.

Sinnoh's cities, like Hoenn's, has compounded words but that's clearly not a theme. Does it even need one?

Actually, Mahogany is a type of tree, so is Teak, as in Ecruteak. All the cities have a plant in their name, but most of them are modified to stay interesting.

As for Hoenn, I recall reading somewhere in a Pokemon book that its cities are compounds of organic and inorganic things.
LittleRoot
Not sure about Oldale, could someone help me?
Petalburg
Rustboro
Dewford
etc.

As for changing the names, at first I didn't like many of them, but all of them have kind of grown on me, so no.

 

[Almonds]

Actually, Mahogany is a type of tree, so is Teak, as in Ecruteak. All the cities have a plant in their name, but most of them are modified to stay interesting.

As for Hoenn, I recall reading somewhere in a Pokemon book that its cities are compounds of organic and inorganic things.
Little[/B]Root
Not sure about Oldale, could someone help me?
Petalburg
Rustboro
Dewford
etc.

As for changing them, all the names have kind of grownn on me.

I think Oldale could be Old + ale.

Little + root

Old + ale

Petal + burg

Rust + boro

Dew + ford

Slate + port

Mau + ville

Verdan + turf

Fall + arbor

Lava + ridge

For + tree

Lily + cove

Moss + Deep

Soot + o + polis

Pacifid + log

Ever + Grande

It's just a combination of words that best describe the town/city.

 

[Articwolf10]

I don't think "compound word" is considered a theme.

In the Japanese version:
Kanto and Johto are colors
Hoenn is probably plants
Sinnoh is archaic Japanese words
Isshu is patterns

Well...like Dark queen said each matches the city so it can be a theme since al tows are counpound words its a name theme as muxh as colors plants or clouds

 

[Pidgeot]

I think Oldale could be Old + ale.

Little + root

Old + ale

Petal + burg

Rust + boro

Dew + ford

Slate + port

Mau + ville

Verdan + turf

Fall + arbor

Lava + ridge

For + tree

Lily + cove

Moss + Deep

Soot + o + polis

Pacifid + log

Ever + Grande

It's just a combination of words that best describe the town/city.

It's the same with the Sinnoh settlements as well-

Twinleaf
Sandgem
Jubilife
Oreburgh
Floaroma
Eternal
Hearthome
Solaceon
Veilstone
Pastoria (pasture)
Celestic
Canalave
Snowpoint
Sunyshore

 

[βƹβƹ ɱɪɢηѻη]

I think we're getting a tad bit off-topic... :S

Actually, Mahogany is a type of tree, so is Teak, as in Ecruteak. All the cities have a plant in their name, but most of them are modified to stay interesting. I know that. I didn't do everything.

As for Hoenn, I recall reading somewhere in a Pokemon book that its cities are compounds of organic and inorganic things.
LittleRoot
Not sure about Oldale, could someone help me?
Petalburg
Rustboro
Dewford
etc.

Mauville doesn't work. Mauve is a type of color, thus inorganic. Ville is inorganic as well. Ever Grande also doesn't work with the theme. I don't undestand why you labeled "burg" and "ford" as inorganic and "boro" as organic... I don't think it's Hoenn's main theme, it's more like a.. recurring theme.



As for changing the names, at first I didn't like many of them, but all of them have kind of grown on me, so no.

I think Oldale could be Old + ale.

Little + root

Old + ale I think it was intended to have a double meaning; Old + dale (dale is a city suffix, at least in the US.)

Petal + burg

Rust + boro

Dew + ford

Slate + port

Mau + ville It's actually Mauve not mau. Mauve is a pale lavender-lilac color (from Wikipedia)

Verdan + turf Again, it's Verdant, not verdan. Verdant means "green with vegetation" (from Dictionary.com)

Fall + arbor

Lava + ridge

For + tree Fort + tree

Lily + cove

Moss + Deep

Soot + o + polis

Pacifid + log Pacifid probably comes from Pacific.

Ever + Grande It's not combined at all

It's just a combination of words that best describe the town/city.

Comments bolded.

The one thing that has bothered me is Cinnabar Island. Is it a town.. Or a city? Or neither? :/

 

[bluesun]

If you're going for an organic+inorganic theme, Mauville could be Maw+ville, edited to remove the wv.

 

[The Outrage]

@darkqueen

It isn't just a simple "split the word in half arbitrarily" as letters are dropped during the combination

For example,

Verdan(t) + turf-->basically transliterating to describing the city as a lush green lawn which goes well with the idea that Verdanturf has very clean air

For(t) + tree-->Tree fort

Pacifi(c->d) + log-->I assume it was taken from the word "Pacific" to describe that it is a city of logs floating on the ocean, and the change to a "d" would either be because its easier to pronounce with a d, or they don't want to seem like they took it directly from two words.

Really, Hoenn theme-naming seem more or less consistent with "going to combine words which best describes this city" theme.

 

[Adamant]

Celadon is... bizarre.
Its Japanese name, Tamamushi, refers to "tamamushi-iro", iridescence, relating to its role as the biggest, centralized city in the game, surrounded by cities all named after colors. This is also, of course, why the badge from the gym is the multi-colored Rainbow Badge, setting it apart from the other mono-colored badges (which, in the Japanese version, are named the Grey, Blue, Orange, Gold, Pink, Crimson and Green badge).
So... the English games shits all over the meaning the name is supposed to have and randomly names it after a shade of green (which is the color supposed to be connected to Viridian). What?

So yeah, that.