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

It's time for the SPOOOOOKIES #Japanese slang explanation of 2026. Click the link to learn about: 明日の花火大会、１６時に駅。遅れんなよ。 おま環・おまおれ ギュン: & 最初はキュン 泡姫 チー牛 借りパク デニる 課金兵 キマシタワー チェケラー wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

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 piped.video/Z5w44CQe7bY

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.

New blog post: A history of when Japanese borrowed swearwords from English into Japanese. wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

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…

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)

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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.

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.

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). piped.video/v14aWSPDRng?si=oVLL…

It's time for the June #Japanese slang review. This month, let's learn about: オシガマ 恋バナ 顔ない バリ3 嫁ニー 朝ラー チャッピー構文 メカメカしい 百合営業 解釈違い wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

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

The U.S. Ambassador to Japan's AI-generated image doesn't even have the correct year for the World Cup:

New blog post: An introduction to kurimango (栗満語), one of the more... peculiar Japanese writing styles ever made. wesleycrobertson.wordpress.c…

Japan Forum's special issue on katakana in Japanese is out @ tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/3… Check out my (OPEN ACCESS) contribution on anti-katakana discourse @ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…