This version of Crystal takes place after an instance of Pokémon Red and Blue in which the player performed Missingno. glitch.
Everyone went completely batshit in the intervening two years as MissingNo wandered across the PokèPlanet. This explains all the screwy dialogue, nobody is sane enough to properly understand each other anymore.This version casts a foreigner to Johto and Kanto as the lead who just got there, not a native.
What does this explain? Well, Pokemon trainers would greatly benefit on their travels from understanding more than one language to travel the world and battle foreign opponents, but to someone trying to understand a language for the first time, especially the kind of young lead you play in a Pokemon game, nobody would be any the wiser and would come across like they're reading from a foreign language dictionary with pages ripped out. And since our hero/heroine doesn't bother with asking for corrections, your understanding is obviously less than perfect...- Even better: they're actually from the Pokémon World's version of Vietnam.
Giovanni is the trashy man.
Hey, he is ranting about Team Rocket in the original.- So Silver is Calling the Old Man Out?
- No, because the old man has to be there for the Calling the Old Man Out trope to be in effect; or, Giovanni is completely absent from the game. Giovanni being The Trashy Man can still work, though.
The protagonist has Auditory Processing Disorder.
Perhaps that's the reason they can't hear very well.- I have that disorder, and it isn't that disruptive.
- So do I. I think this is more likely that the protagonist is using poor translation of the local language, and maybe he's mishearing some of the words too. But mostly it's that his hovercraft is full of eels
The Trashy Man is Donald Merwin Elbert.
The Trashy Man is Frank Reynolds.
The Trashy Man is Oscar the Grouch.
One of the Trashy Man's Pokémon is a Trubbish or Garbodor.
The absurd language everyone is speaking is a result of the Scrambler being activated.
You can get a pony. But not with missiles. This game saying the Kanto power plant runs on "jade stones" is its way of saying it's a nuclear fission plant.
They didn't specify how the power plant worked in the original games, but we've seen examples of power plants whose workings are immediately obvious in later games: Valley Windworks is a wind plant, the Kalos Power Plant is a microwave solar plant, Blush Mountain is a geothermal plant, and Hammerlocke's Energy Plant is an entirely fictitious type of power plant that uses Wishing Pieces and perhaps later the energy emitted by Eternatus after it was summoned and captured (making coal or nuclear fission its closest real-world equivalent, as both involve the use of minerals). This translation was categorized under Magitek on the main page, but I think there's evidence to suggest this is just a weird way of saying it's a fission plant. First, the text itself: "jade" in this case may not mean that the "stones" they're running the plant with are actually composed of jade, but appear jade (i.e. they're green). Now, actual radioactive material doesn't typically glow (and when it does, it isn't typically green), but having something glow green is a useful visual shorthand for "it's radioactive," and who's to say that Game Freak, let alone the bootleggers, knows that actual radioactive material doesn't typically glow green? They're game developers, not scientists! Or maybe, for all we know, nuclear plants in the Pokéverse run on something even better than uranium, thorium, or plutonium, and whatever that is actually DOES glow green. Secondly, its location in the Pokéverse's Kanto as compared to the actual Kantō (with a little Chūbu) region of Japan: According to an article on Bulbapedia on how locations in the Pokémon series match up to IRL locations, the Kanto Power Plant's real world equivalent is (or was, I don't know) a nuclear plant.