@ScriptingJapan

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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Joined October 2019
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New 📌: I'm a sociolinguist of Japanese, and I produce Japanese learning materials, slang reviews & a dictionary, and general articles here: wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c… I have a podcast on metal: tinyurl.com/ycxtueyj And you can help keep things ad-free: ko-fi.com/scriptingjapan
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Replying to @logiclysnd @siobears
サンガツ！
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LogicallySound@logiclysnd16h
I'm sorry to be that guy but the Japanese have actually experienced this so much that they have coined a term for it: おま国 youtu.be/Z5w44CQe7bY

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おま国には流行語の解説をしてやらない。#nihongo #learnjapanese #japanese #日本語 #steam

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«Cursed Lucess»@DualRailgunLuce23h
we need to release something in America and deliberately exclude the Japanese from all media, merchandise, and events so they can see how it feels
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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.
Vampy@VampyricMaidOct 11
Oh, you can tell how much effort and care was put into it by the fact this famous bit of wordplay at the start of the game comes across like random nonsense in English.
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New blog post: A history of when Japanese borrowed swearwords from English into Japanese. wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

A (Mediocre) History of English Vulgarities in Japanese

Hi! Here’s a question probably no one has ever asked before: how long have Japanese people been sincerely using swear words borrowed from English? As in, not just listing them in dictionaries…

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Replying to @kotsuyose
Thanks for that, I'll correct.
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It's time for the September #Japanese slang review! Click the link to learn about: ナムジャ病 ドパガキ ドカメロ デカドリンク ワホー 冷笑系 チン騎士 ホワイトキック へんふよ 手のひらドリル wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

Japanese Slang Review – September 2026

And it’s time for the ninth 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, l…

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minami@sakaimiiSep 23
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)
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Replying to @gkmond
永遠にMK5であれば、永遠にキレない（秘密の知識）
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私はMK5を日常的に使っていますよ。絶対死なせません。
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Replying to @gkmond
死語です！
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It's time for the August #Japanese slang review! Click below to learn about: おま国 喪男 デブラー フレネミー 即堕ち パイスラ パワギラ・酒ギラ・マネギラ DUOる MM ガンブ wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

Japanese Slang Review – August 2026

And it’s time for the eight 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, l…

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New publication out! Check out my article in Gender & Language on how the gender of the speaker effects the translation of their vulgarities into Japanese, analyzing vulgarity translation in between the subs & dubs of The Boys and Russian Doll. utppublishing.com/doi/10.313…
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Replying to @chouhei_ @Nullouch
It's the shine that comes from learning.
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@mrjeffuJul 31
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.
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It's time for the July #Japanese slang review! Click the link below to learn about... おじアタック アニオリ モテ期 シュバる ｱｰｳ タゴサク構文 びっくりした、〇〇かと思った おまいつ めじるしチャーム ゴチミヤ wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

Japanese Slang Review – July 2026

And it’s time for the seventh 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,…

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Replying to @usuk88674180511
*why you
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y u post same gif everywhere rather than lern?
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Replying to @EndWokeness
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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Not fully true! Borrowings from Western languages were common in Meiji, to the extent that the WW2 wartime government and its predecessors tried to crack down on it. This was a failure, as low literacy lead to soldiers unable to read kanji compounds, with the military reverting.
Feliks5N@Feliks5NJul 8
Replying to @mrjeffu @ScriptingJapan
in the early meiji restoration, Japanese scholars can easily create terms that translate western concept literally combining ancient Chinese classics and general borrowed kanji beautifully. After losing the war, every new terms are soullessly romanized. post war stuffs are boring
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@mrjeffuJul 8
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.
Emily Maple@writerofscratchJul 7
Replying to @writerofscratch
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!
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