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Madlooney6 wrote:

Blaziken rjcf wrote:

Madlooney6 wrote:

Oneofthosedf wrote:

Madlooney6 wrote: So his name means container. Could that be added to his page? No. If his name in Spanish is Piente ad the Portugese name is Phiander or Phi'ander, what would his English name be if the container theme is continued? There are no such words as "Phiander" or "Phi'ander" in Portuguese. They don't mean anything.

They might be corruptions of other portugese words. Nope. We haven't used "ph" in quite a long time (think centuries; I don't think even my grandmother learned to write like that), having replaced it with "f", and there's no word that means "container" in Portuguese that looks anything like "Phiander" or "Phi'ander". In addition, we don't use apostrophes. Ever. There's not a single context in Portuguese where it's right to use an apostrophe. Besides, unless I'm mistaken, the episode aired in Brazil; not any Spanish-speaking country, meaning that the name "Piente" was made up by the Spanish-speaking fans, making it irrelevant to the discussion.