A List Of All Kosher Pokémon

TOTAL PERMISSIBLE POKEMON: 80 OUT OF 890

first of all: yes, Judaism exists in the Pokémon universe; Meowth specifically mentions Yom Kippur in the song Nobody Don’t Like Christmas, which you can find here on Bulbapedia. this brings up a lot of theological questions (arceus echad?) but i think we can for the time being set those aside and discuss the real important stuff, like, as observant Pokémon trainers, what do we eat? (can you even be an observant Pokémon trainer? after all, Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef had a strong negative opinion on the Jewish-ness of bullfights, and many rabbis have spoken on the scriptural obligation to prevent an animal’s suffering, which to me definitely applies to Pokémon fights. maybe N is the most frum of us all)

(again, this post cannot possibly get into all the implications of trying to be Jewish in the world of Pokémon, so let’s move on)

as a guide for this post, i have followed (with exceptions) this guide to Poke-kashrut (please click here to embiggen) that i can unfortunately no longer find a real source for because the Facebook group therein is defunct! if you have a question as to why a particular Pokémon was not included check the guide first, I pretty much agree with it! (also Wingull and Pelipper aren’t kosher because pelicans are specifically called out as non-kosher bird)

without further ado, THE LIST is below the cut!

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Expressing evolution in Pokémon names: Experimental explorations

There has been a growing interest in sound symbolic patterns in natural languages, in which some sounds are associated with particular meanings. Previous corpus-based research identified some specific sound symbolic relationships in Pokémon naming

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The Pokemon franchise uses sound symbolism! It’s super effective!

A paper describing the use of sound symbolism in naming evolutions in Pokemon, and studying to what extent the sound symbolism is seen as intuitive by Japanese-speakers who are unfamiliar with Pokemon names. They asked people to come up with names for made-up pokemon, and in another test, asked people to assign invented names to invented pokemon, finding a statistically-significant correlation between size and length of names (in morae) and the number of voiced obstruents (with evolved forms tending to have names that are both longer and containing more voiced obstruents on average). It was found that, not only was this used by the creators of Pokemon, but that Japanese subjects who were not familiar with Pokemon showed the same intuition in naming fictitious pokemon

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