Dr Wes Robertson
@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.
New 📌: I'm a sociolinguist of Japanese, and I produce Japanese learning materials, slang reviews & a dictionary, and general articles here: wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com I have a podcast on metal: tinyurl.com/ycxtueyj And you can help keep things ad-free: ko-fi.com/scriptingjapan
分かりすぎてめっちゃわらった これ会社でたまにやってしまう
チラシのラフ、自分にしか読めない字で書いてるんだけど、これはない
in class this week I summarized Saïd's "Orientalism" by comparing it to AI: "you know how AI content is getting worse because it's now being trained based on its own output? that's how the West creates stereotypes about the Orient and teaches itself about its own superiority."
Great new book out and I've got a chapter in it! If you're keen to have a read, you can get 50% off until end of month (I make 0 dollars from this btw, it's just a really interesting book!)
the fact that jp fujos are using it now tho?? 😭😭🙏🏻
jp twt users learning about 'fujoshing out' for the first time probably made my whole week. peak cultural exchange 😭
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It's time for the June #Japanese slang review! Click the link below to learn about 好きな惣菜発表ドラゴン エッホエッホ まずは、ありがとう きょコ 羽ばたいてるね ケチャ マジマジマジンガー ぽれ・ぽまえら 私信 バチギレ案件 wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/jap…
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 Multilingual Matters! Use the code in the image for 50% off if you order a copy by the 31st of July!
Japanese Studies team from @LanguagesMQ promoting studying Japanese Culture and Language at the university level to 400 high school students through introducing how we structure our degrees at @Macquarie_Uni 🇯🇵
Japanese Slang Explanation: 好きな惣菜発表ドラゴン youtu.be/Y7tndKYQbEs?si… @YouTubeより 海外の言語学者の方が「好きな惣菜発表ドラゴン」について説明している動画が詳しすぎて面白い 「ボカコレ」や「humorous or joking song」として「ネタ曲」という言葉も出てくる
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 it's open access (you can read it FREE)! Check it out @ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Dr. Wes Robertson @ScriptingJapan 先生のこの辺の話に書いてあるかもしれない？ Ojisan Gokko Shiyo: Contesting Graphic Ideologies in Online Japanese Language Play youtu.be/MEBzT6gVPl8?si…
「〇〇構文」のミームを英語で説明するときに毎回思うんだけど、ここでいう「構文」は 'syntax' とはちょっと違うものを指してるのに適切な英訳が見つからない
May #Japanese slang review is up! Click the link below to learn about: 事後界隈 伊能忠敬界隈 絶起 だいしてる おつハムニダ ㌧クス カチカチに凍った漢江の上を猫が歩いてます 少なくともファッション誌には載っていた服だぞ ガチチル てへぺろ wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/jap…
New Blog Post! Join the 界隈理解界隈 by reading this deep dive into 界隈... I mean, 界-隈not? wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/wha…
April #Japanese 流行語 review is up! Click the link below to learn about: 海外ニキネキ 違和感仕事しろ ちくわ大明神 5000兆円欲しい! あくしろよ 切り替えピース 風呂キャンセル界隈 メンブレ リアコ 恋のHamburg♪/お料理、得意なんです wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/jap…
I'm delighted to share that my article on the language policy for English loanwords in Japan has been published! Free download Nambu, Satoshi. 2025. Reflection on Japan’s language policy for English loanwords. English Today doi.org/10.1017/S02660…
日常会話では、カジュアルな場面で98.6%が「（寝）ている」でなく「（寝）てる」、職場の会議でも92%が「てる」ということがコーパス調査でわかりました。書き言葉では「ている」が圧倒的多数。 「複数のコーパスを利用した言葉のバリエーションの研究」国立国語研究所論集 28, 79-94. open access
New article Nambu, Satoshi. 2025. Corpus-based study on language variation: Exploring language-external factors. NINJAL Research Papers, 28, 79-94. doi.org/10.15084/00020… Open access [written in Japanese]