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> seeing how nobody pronounces Pokémon as Pokémon

I say (and usually hear, from English speakers) "poker mon" (non-rhotically). Isn't that roughly correct, allowing for differences between English and Japanese vowels?



If you're going for "correct", the first two syllables should rhyme with "okay". That's what the accented é is trying to hint at.


I thought the accent was to indicate to English speakers that the word has three syllables rather than two? The acute accent isn't standard for marking a long vowel in romanised Japanese (it's usually a macron or a circumflex, or a doubling of the letter in ASCII-only contexts); and as best I can tell, the vowel in the original Japanese is short -- so closer to the "e" in "bed" or "met" than to the "ay" in "okay", if I understand correctly.




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