Well, your art WAS the most badass, and it happened to have the perfect dimensions for cover art...
Great job, everyone.
Great job, everyone.
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This was a good one, I liked the manliest pokemon article. I was kind of disappointed that aggron didn't make it in though. D:
seriously how did he not make it in
seriously how did he not make it in
A small nitpick(that for some reason really pisses me off) I would like to say that Buffafro is a Buffalo, not a Bull... And real men use lanturn, not stupid Garchomp...
gdamn I knew I was forgetting someone . . . yeah, that name is extremely retarded . . .
retrospecy FYI:
desu / masu are used to end sentences in Japanese's "standard" polite form.
. . . but, in this case, when combined with the design of the pokemon itself, you end up reading it as shortened Katakana.
Katakana words are foreign words, but Japanese will also abbreviate foreign phrases by using only the first segment of each word. Examples include Raji-Kase (radio/cassette player) and Ame-Futo (American Football). They also use this method to nickname bands with western sounding names, like Tora-Nesu (Trap Nest) or BLAST (Black Stones).
So in DesuMasu's case, the katakana word Desu is often used as the closest pronunciation to the word "Death" (hence Yu-Gi-Oh cards like Des Koala, Des Wombat). Where as Masu is used to abbreviate "Mask".
So DesuMasu is Desk Mask, but also puns off of DesuMasu which refers to a form of speech.
. . . yeah . . .
retrospecy FYI:
desu / masu are used to end sentences in Japanese's "standard" polite form.
. . . but, in this case, when combined with the design of the pokemon itself, you end up reading it as shortened Katakana.
Katakana words are foreign words, but Japanese will also abbreviate foreign phrases by using only the first segment of each word. Examples include Raji-Kase (radio/cassette player) and Ame-Futo (American Football). They also use this method to nickname bands with western sounding names, like Tora-Nesu (Trap Nest) or BLAST (Black Stones).
So in DesuMasu's case, the katakana word Desu is often used as the closest pronunciation to the word "Death" (hence Yu-Gi-Oh cards like Des Koala, Des Wombat). Where as Masu is used to abbreviate "Mask".
So DesuMasu is Desk Mask, but also puns off of DesuMasu which refers to a form of speech.
. . . yeah . . .
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