It's all a fucking lie. Fuck it all.

That the e is accented.

I was wondering that too? Most be the American English localization.

pokaymon

because it would be pronounced pok-ee-mon instead of pok-eh-mon without the accent

It's because Pokemon came from South America, you fucking dipshit.

weeaboos will pronounce it wrong anyway

>>4391613
Pokemon is actually Japanese.

cus they wantedto show that its pokaymon, not poke - mon..duh

It's because the syllable is
Ki and not ke, while maintaining the poket monsters shorthand name

You really need to know why?
Pic very related, from a trading card shop in the mall.

>>4391636

Don't you have that backwards? I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be poh-keh-mon, not poh-kee-mon.

>>4391623
Well done.
(Also, I personally pronounce it poker-mon or perka-mon)

>>4391636
No, it's pronounced exactly the way it's spelt. I know english-speaking people have trouble pronouncing words correctly. It's like the E sound in "meh", not "way". But you guys pronounce Jose like Hozay, so it's probably a lost cause.

It's supposed to be an apostrophe like in "it's", "don't", et cetera.

The full name is Pocket Monsters.
The pretend apostrophe means it's shortened.

It's a contraction of "Pocket Monsters," as it is known in Japan. I imagine it shows that contraction...

this thread and its replies made me facepalm hard.
you don't know how to pronounce an accented e? seriously?

>>4391684
It's an apostrophe not an accent.

>>4391924
Oh, I mean 'accent not apostrophe' but whatever :/

why cant I type in non ascii

because pokemon was invented by a french man

>>4391934
so you don't try and trick the robot

>>4391684
No, it's not. How the hell does an entire global franchise that has spawned billions of different products accidentally misplace an apostrophe over a letter, making it look like an accent?

It's simply to make you pronounce the damn word in a correct way, but clearly you find your own explanations to avoid that.