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scriptingjapan.bsky.social
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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We did it fam.

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

Hey! I've got a chapter on script-based language ideologies across Japanese history in this new book Ideologies of Communication in Japan out via @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social! Use the code in the image for 50% off if you order a copy by the 31st of July!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

submitted 2 days ago • 181 comments

Struggling to understand the citation norm here. Japanese names in romaji, but English names alternating? Strange.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

え゛

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

ローマ字は文化生活の基調である is an interesting sales pitch, I can see why a typewriter would attempt it, although it places this advertisment in a very specific date range as this ad copy wouldn't fly in certain periods.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

わだし is a rare Japanese pronoun you can use when you are sick

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

男子が男台まる。

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

One of my local 7/11s is always putting up these foreign language signs trying to introduce all the tourists to products that are popular among the locals and I think that’s adorable 🥰

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Decades of hard work and this is what I'm known as

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

日本語話者と日本語学習者共に見られる『横文字アレルギー』に付いて研究した論文。 カタカナに関係する社会的な信仰(信念？思い込み？)を日本語話者と日本語学習者両方の視点を交えて見るそうです。 なんと、無料で読めるとの事！

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Hey! I have a new research paper out called "Yokomoji arerugī"! This study examines social beliefs about katakana among both Japanese natives and Japanese learners in the journal Japan Forum. And guess what, it's open access (you can read it FREE)! Check it out @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Hey! I have a new research paper out called "Yokomoji arerugī"! This study examines social beliefs about katakana among both Japanese natives and Japanese learners in the journal Japan Forum. And guess what, it's open access (you can read it FREE)! Check it out @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Incredible kanji play here

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Texting in Japanese

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

I uploaded the pre-finished version of this without screenshots oops. Here's the full one.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Hunting for Japanese pronouns in the wild

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Every single time I need to write 曜日, I come back to this video and think, "I need another ten suggestions about Kanji reform." @scriptingjapan.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2x7...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The concept of a guy being a wizard is now advertised on Twitter.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Made a video about Murloc pun translation into the Japanese #Hearthstone Client youtu.be/xelXhxX0dZI?...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

No one is going to understand this yet but this image I made is going in this month's slang review.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I am the change I want to see in the world

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments