pokemon speaking

[aaronisyoung]

how come pokemon say there names when they talk??(not like dogs say "do do dog" )

[mr_pikachu]

That's just something they did with the Pokemon anime/manga. However, many Pokemon (such as Onix) do not say their own name. And in the games, none of them say a word. They just make little electronic noises.

And who's to say that dogs don't talk? My dad had a voice-recognition program running on his computer one time. One of the dogs started barking, and suddenly the screen filled up with one word: "How". To this day we laugh about how our dogs can speak English.

[Zhen Lin]

Technically, Onix does say its name. Its Japanese name -- Iwaku. It's hard to hear if you didn't know what to listen for.

There are quite a few Pokemon for which the Japanese voices(but not the name) were retained. Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres; Mightyena, among others.

[Crystal Mew]

They don't all say their name...but the ones that do say it because....the writers made it like that? lol and I dunno why they decided to do that, but they did *shrugs* meowth is awesome though