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WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "FORM" AND "FORME"
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>>58539140
E
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Forme is a French loan word that sounds like a homophone of form, so... probably nothing.
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>>58539140
One is cosmetic one matters statistically
I think
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>>58539140
gamefreak used "forme" once and didn't proofread so they're sticking with it
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>>58539140
Forme means "For me" representing GF giving everyone the finger and designing Pokemon to suit their own tastes
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>>58539162
Hisuian Lilligant is for me
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>>58539140
I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be
>Form
State of Pokemon's being. It cannot change this willfully.
>Forme
It can change this with specific actions.

But around Gen 7 they said fuck it and stopped calling new things "forme"s
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>>58540751
It's actually just a translation issue, it's supposed to be "sugata" -> "form" and "forme" -> "forme", but in recent gens the translators have fucked up and translated "forme" as "form" so often there's no consistency in what gets called what in English any more.
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Forme is the French word for "shape"
Form is an English word copied from the French word mentioned above, but with the final E removed so that it would sound the same as it does in French (since they dont pronounce final Es).
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Formes can be changed, forms can't



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