Chair of Languages & Cultures @Macquarie_Uni @LanguagesMQ. #Japanese sociolinguist & @Brutalinguist co-host. #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.
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Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Whenever people claim "AI translation is better than human translation because it's ''''literal'''', I try to explain to them how literal translation does factually NOT exist because being a slave to word causes you to lose TONS of information. Language is not linear.
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
It's kind of interesting how in Showa to mid-Heisei the slang for extroverts/normies and introverts were nekura (根暗) and neaka (根明), which then morphed into riajuu (リア充) and hiria (非リア), which then morphed into the current yokya (陽キャ) and inkya (陰キャ)
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Another embarrassing day for a popular "Japanese nationalist" account that posts in English. This person claims to be Japanese, but can't even read the basic kanji for "South Korea" (韓国) which is in the video. It is is not complicated Japanese vocabulary. Most foreigners who study Japanese would learn very early on when learning kanji.
They also can't even read Hatoyama's name, which is a fairly simple name to read for Japanese native speakers. Former PM Hatoyama is a fringe figure in Japanese politics today, with pro-Putin and pro-China stances that are out of touch with the general public, and would be cringe even by the standards of Japan's tiny Communist Party.
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Chiitan finds him incredibly beautiful.
He hasn’t done anything wrong, and he hasn’t bothered anyone.
He simply became his true self.
There’s nothing more wonderful than that.🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
A great thread about why you should should be watching videos from Professor Wes Robertson (@ScriptingJapan) if you actually want to learn about the Japanese language.
Dogen translates 国際化 as globalization, so he can pretend it ends up replaced by グローバル化, but... as @ScriptingJapan literally already pointed out in his video last month, 国際化 means "internationalization". That's not the same thing!
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Something Wes (@ScriptingJapan) points out in his video is that in many cases the supposedly "redundant loan words" singled out by people like Dogen aren't 100% interchangeable with existing vocabulary.
There is no Japanese 1-on-1 synonym with the *exact* same meaning as LGBT.
Anyway, go watch @ScriptingJapan's video regarding loanwords in Japanese if you want to actually learn a thing or two and listen to a refreshing perspective, informed by Facts, Research and Objective Truth (i.e. I agree with his perspective).
youtu.be/v14aWSPDRng?si=oVLL…
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Anyway, go watch @ScriptingJapan's video regarding loanwords in Japanese if you want to actually learn a thing or two and listen to a refreshing perspective, informed by Facts, Research and Objective Truth (i.e. I agree with his perspective).
youtu.be/v14aWSPDRng?si=oVLL…
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
The U.S. Ambassador to Japan's AI-generated image doesn't even have the correct year for the World Cup:
Japan’s @jfa_samuraiblue “lion tamers” are more than ready to turn that @OnsOranje roar into a meow, @usambnl Popolo. Here, kitty kitty! 😸
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Also be sure to check out the resources @ScriptingJapan has made!
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This is true... unless you've checked out the FREE RESOURCES page of my blog! #Japanese textbooks! Japanese slang reviews! Public lectures! All free and true (you can't even pay me if you want to because I'm too lazy to set that up as an option!)
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Scripting Japan is my favorite Japanese-learning channel in YouTube by far
Japanese Slang Review Tonight: チョワヨー Featuring Supiki! youtu.be/KDSm1wJBbi4?si=I68u… via @YouTube
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Japanese Slang Review Tonight: チョワヨー Featuring Supiki!
youtu.be/KDSm1wJBbi4
호주 사람이 한국 게임에서 나온 일본의 유행어 "쪼와요"를 리뷰하는 영상
이게 왜 진짜임
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
.@mackenziescott you have the opportunity to do an extremely funny (and genuinely heroic) thing right now
You could launch a full-up newspaper from the 300 people laid off by the Washington Post 3 hours ago.
Instantly.
Business. Sports. Metro. Ukraine. China. AI & tech.
They'd start writing this afternoon!
A 300-person newsroom would cost about $80 million a year (running a little lean).
Just saying.
I hear there are some billionaires out there looking for places to invest.
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
...funny, literally just saw @ScriptingJapan's video on this exact subject today!
#理義字 #品字様 #漢字
youtu.be/Zuua8M0TxK4?si=BTk3…
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
「男の娘」と呼ばれること/名乗ることがすぐに、そのひとが男性であることを意味はしませんよ。私たちはしばしば仕方なく、または積極的に「男の娘」を名乗り、それでいてトランス女性でもありえます
This is why im anti-localizer. All these westerners constantly spouting a out how this character is trans and going as far as harrassing the japanese for being "transphobic" because westerners dont have the nuance for these japanese cultural phenomenon. Many japanese are calling this character otokonoko (male-daughter, a crossdressing male). This character isn't trans, im not against trans people but this character is a male. From what the japanese are saying, this character is similar to Ruka from Steins;Gate, a self-defined male who crossdresses specifically to be more attractive to a person they love.
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
Japanese Slang Review - January 2026 wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c… @ScriptingJapanより
Dr Wes Robertson retweeted
man i wish this show didn’t attract the most racist people alive
The Season 2 ending of ‘Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End’ was fully hand-drawn using only colored pencils, created by artist Mimei Aoume (@aoumemimei).
