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But whatever happens, the section pointing out the Western name order versus Asian name order should remain, because I think it points out an important character detail that the devs wanted to impart upon Samson (in four different language versions, no less) which simply doesn't translate at all to the Western versions. Whaddya think? -- [[User:Nick15|Nick15]] ([[User talk:Nick15|talk]]) 09:48, 6 December 2016 (UTC) | But whatever happens, the section pointing out the Western name order versus Asian name order should remain, because I think it points out an important character detail that the devs wanted to impart upon Samson (in four different language versions, no less) which simply doesn't translate at all to the Western versions. Whaddya think? -- [[User:Nick15|Nick15]] ([[User talk:Nick15|talk]]) 09:48, 6 December 2016 (UTC) | ||
:I think it's just the case that Alola is a region not based on Japan, and they know Westerners use given name before surname, so they reflected that with Samson. It's not to "give it a hint of foreignness", it's just literally how it is. If a Japanese person moved to a Western country, they would get used to using their given name first before surname. Even if someone's just visiting from Japan, like for a convention, they almost always introduce themselves given name, then surname, cause they know that's how it works in English. <sup>[[Typhlosion (Pokémon)|<span style="color:#C00;">★</span>]]</sup>[[User:Jo The Marten|<span style="color:#C00;">Jo the Marten</span>]]<sup>[[Flygon (Pokémon)|<span style="color:#C00;">★</span>]]</sup> [[User_Talk:Jo The Marten|<span style="color:#C00;">ಠ_ಠ</span>]][[Cilan (anime)|<span style="color:#90C870;">♥</span>]] 10:13, 6 December 2016 (UTC) | :I think it's just the case that Alola is a region not based on Japan, and they know Westerners use given name before surname, so they reflected that with Samson. It's not to "give it a hint of foreignness", it's just literally how it is. If a Japanese person moved to a Western country, they would get used to using their given name first before surname. Even if someone's just visiting from Japan, like for a convention, they almost always introduce themselves given name, then surname, cause they know that's how it works in English. <sup>[[Typhlosion (Pokémon)|<span style="color:#C00;">★</span>]]</sup>[[User:Jo The Marten|<span style="color:#C00;">Jo the Marten</span>]]<sup>[[Flygon (Pokémon)|<span style="color:#C00;">★</span>]]</sup> [[User_Talk:Jo The Marten|<span style="color:#C00;">ಠ_ಠ</span>]][[Cilan (anime)|<span style="color:#90C870;">♥</span>]] 10:13, 6 December 2016 (UTC) | ||
::Are we sure that Kanto's Professor Oak uses a different name order, as this trivium claims? To my knowledge his first name was only given in the anime (and even then, never in conjunction with the last name, so we don't know the order), and our page for him lists the same order as Samson ("<given name> Okido"). [[User:Pumpkinking0192|Pumpkinking0192]] ([[User talk:Pumpkinking0192|talk]]) 21:43, 6 December 2016 (UTC) | |||