Pokémon Black and White News

[SlowPokemon]

10th, but I should be in ninth on account of me skipping first grade.

[Winter]

Ah, well I'm in 11th :/ BUT you're probably taking my same classes as i'm a year behind in everything and except 2 years ahead in math.

[HugoMeister]

[Roz~]

It does make sense. I still hate it though. Anyways since I don't live there it doesn't matter much.

[DrP]

Not for us, we were only in sixth grade. You were in fifth grade actually---I keep forgetting you're actually a grade behind me because I'm smart.

Anyway, I've already warmed up. xD The initial shock had me like "WTF"

I never really followed it... I was busy with being a Freshman and all.

There are so many underlying things pertaining to the US going on here. It's quite exciting! Black City is based on Vegas. The future regions will either be from the US, from North America or from somewhere else in the world.

Maybe they might make one on LA (well, it's a shithole) or SF (which is NorCal which sucks)... Maybe they might choose Canada or somethin at a later date

[dahans]

The english names of the starters have been revealed!

Namely: Oshawott, Snivey and Tepig

They sound a bit odd, don't they?

[SlowPokemon]

You spelled Snivy wrong, and we all knew that about thirteen hours ago. xD

[DrP]

But he didn't. It was like 2 AM where he is when we found out!

But they released the German ones if you wanna take a look!

[dahans]

Oh xD sorry hahahaha. The german names sound even worse. xD

[SlowPokemon]

You can't say that without telling us their names! Now I want to know.

[Sekter77]

I really don't like the new names much. Why couldn't the grass starter have been named Smugleaf? But that Unova thing is pretty funny even though I don't like the name much. I never would've caught that on my own. I think the name was also supposed to be based off of the US motto, "Out of many, one," since it has "unum": and "nova" which approximately translates to "one" and "variety." But I don't know if internet comments can be trusted to have perfect information...

[SlowPokemon]

UGH BECAUSE SMUGLEAF IS THE WORST NAME EVER

[SuperFireKirby]

At least it makes sense

[Jub3r7]

Snivy.
Snivy?
Meh. A Snivy does almost sound like a snake Pokemon, but the name is only okay...

Oshawott.
Oshawott?
WHY?! Osha... wott... water. Otter. It's a water otter. Woohoo. How many Oshawotts in a lightbulb?

Tepig.
Tepig?
TEH PIG. TEH EPIC PIG DOES NOT HAVE TEH EPIC NAME.
Me is not happy.

Unova...
Haha, Hugo.

Oh, and I thought this was funny...
http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Talk:Tsutarja,_Pokabu,_Mijumaru_localized#Reference
The "Reference" subtitle.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4017/metalgearunovastartersk.png

[SlowPokemon]

Snivy=Snake+Ivy
Tepig=Tepid (meaning warm or lukewarm) +Pig
Oshawott=Ocean+Water/Otter