the video version of the blog post is here!!!!!! watch to witness The Magnum Opus Of 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
the video version of the blog post is here!!!!!! watch to witness The Magnum Opus Of Dr. Wes Robertson
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.
Made a video breakdown of this:
youtu.be/_bOwzgm7W9Q?...
Gork and Mork-ass comment.
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
I liked it :(
It's more any stressed pronunciation for any reason
あ゛り゛か゛と゛
に゛
う゛
I miss the me who wouldn't have gotten this reference
Kill me
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.
Did you just doxx your reddit account
Someone out there doing the lord's work for me
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...
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...
Uh excuse me uhhh it's clearly なにこれ
Or you talk with your mouth full
N1 level stuff right here
Tell her to play Look Outside
Sometimes my thumbnails come out okay
That's a good gif eh
Why would I want to hear a 1-2 hour speech about the state of the temperature of a sea urchin?
"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...
Made a video about Japanese bathing slang.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5i-...
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.
Enjoy a whole hour of @scriptingjapan.bsky.social teaching the linguistic ins and outs of vulgarity in Japanese:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSzQ...
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?...