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Dr. Wes Robertson

@scriptingjapan

Chair of Languages & Cultures @ Macquarie University. Sociolinguist of Japanese. Lingua Brutallica co-host. Studies Japanese script, media, language, and metal. 日本語の文字やメタル や翻訳を研究する社会言語学者. He/Him. https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com

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the video version of the blog post is here!!!!!! watch to witness The Magnum Opus Of Dr. Wes Robertson

09.03.2026 11:03 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Got my first double-no from reviewers on a research article in a while. Feels bad but I'll dust it off and try again.

09.03.2026 20:39 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Made a video breakdown of this:

youtu.be/_bOwzgm7W9Q?...

08.03.2026 23:31 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Gork and Mork-ass comment.

08.03.2026 01:18 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hot take? "AI is destroying internet media" is not the story here, it's "AI can delivers slop better than what's left of internet media post-private equity". AI summaries can't replace a @gamersnexus.bsky.social vid. I stopped reading gaming sites when they fired all the writers I gave a shit about

07.03.2026 18:05 👍 344 🔁 108 💬 8 📌 2

I liked it :(

08.03.2026 00:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's more any stressed pronunciation for any reason

07.03.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

あ゛り゛か゛と゛

07.03.2026 11:07 👍 41 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 2

に゛

07.03.2026 11:02 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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う゛

07.03.2026 10:43 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
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I miss the me who wouldn't have gotten this reference

05.03.2026 09:52 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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Kill me

02.03.2026 03:17 👍 86 🔁 13 💬 12 📌 1

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

01.03.2026 03:58 👍 18255 🔁 3472 💬 380 📌 171
X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books
X the Ancient Japanese Art of Y: The Mobilization of Linguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Books YouTube video by Scripting Japan

I've proposed linguistic fantasy

youtu.be/TElWjeFmtl4?...

01.03.2026 03:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did you just doxx your reddit account

01.03.2026 01:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Someone out there doing the lord's work for me

01.03.2026 01:21 👍 57 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Japanese Slang Review – February 2026 And it’s time for the second Japanese slang review of 2026 (see all prior posts here)! In these posts I deep dive into the world of Japanese terms you probably won’t see in a textbook, …

New #Japanese Slang Review! Click to read about

ペテンスマイル
保守
バーボンハウス
キボンヌ
青木まりこ現象
片親パン
おはぎゃあ
ほかてら・ほかいま
鯖読み
され夫

wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/j...

27.02.2026 22:02 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Japanese Slang Review – February 2026 And it’s time for the second Japanese slang review of 2026 (see all prior posts here)! In these posts I deep dive into the world of Japanese terms you probably won’t see in a textbook, …

New #Japanese Slang Review! Click to read about

ペテンスマイル
保守
バーボンハウス
キボンヌ
青木まりこ現象
片親パン
おはぎゃあ
ほかてら・ほかいま
鯖読み
され夫

wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/j...

27.02.2026 22:02 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Uh excuse me uhhh it's clearly なにこれ

26.02.2026 23:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Or you talk with your mouth full

26.02.2026 19:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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N1 level stuff right here

26.02.2026 11:34 👍 42 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0
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Tell her to play Look Outside

26.02.2026 01:10 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sometimes my thumbnails come out okay

25.02.2026 20:24 👍 39 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

That's a good gif eh

25.02.2026 02:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why would I want to hear a 1-2 hour speech about the state of the temperature of a sea urchin?

25.02.2026 02:25 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

23.02.2026 12:52 👍 999 🔁 417 💬 28 📌 62
Japanese Bath Slang
Japanese Bath Slang YouTube video by Scripting Japan

Made a video about Japanese bathing slang.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5i-...

23.02.2026 20:42 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Reduction of vulgarity in translation is a near-universal finding across all translations that have ever been studied, I believe I mention it briefly. There's only a few studies, most by one academic, that show a maintenance or increase.

22.02.2026 20:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Researching Vulgarity in Japanese (Presentation for Stanford's East Asian Linguistics Workshop)
Researching Vulgarity in Japanese (Presentation for Stanford's East Asian Linguistics Workshop) YouTube video by Scripting Japan

Enjoy a whole hour of @scriptingjapan.bsky.social teaching the linguistic ins and outs of vulgarity in Japanese:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSzQ...

22.02.2026 17:51 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Researching Vulgarity in Japanese (Presentation for Stanford's East Asian Linguistics Workshop)
Researching Vulgarity in Japanese (Presentation for Stanford's East Asian Linguistics Workshop) YouTube video by Scripting Japan

Another super interesting talk from @scriptingjapan.bsky.social - on vulgarity in Japanese. I knew some of this stuff, like the how much people criticized ussewa, but I didn’t realize how much of it was *because* ado was a 17 yr old girl. Kurimango is also v interesting

youtu.be/VSzQmDtwvlA?...

22.02.2026 17:48 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0