Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores

Re:Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores by sneak on Sunday August 08, 2021 @07:00AM (#28105823)

Pokemon is "pocket monster".

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Re:Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores by effingwewt on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:34PM (#28108445)

And now we in the US have stupid restaurants like Poke Land which would be pocket land, but they thought it related to Pokémon. And it's just a shitty overpriced FoTM.

So now we have double-borrowed words. By the time it gets back to Japan it will be something like Land-Land and will mean something different again like monsters.

Pretty amazing.

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Re:Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores by austinprete on Sunday August 08, 2021 @05:00PM (#28110065)

I don’t know the specific place you’re referring to, but at least all the restaurants I know of with Poke in the name are referring to Hawaiian Poke [1]. Although it’s influenced by Japanese cuisine, it has absolutely nothing to do with Pokémon.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poke_(Hawaiian_dish)

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Re:Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores by effingwewt on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:09AM (#28113497)

Sure enough, thanks for the correction!

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