Dr. Wes Robertson
@scriptingjapan
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.
Using out of date Japanese business slang at work because I have free will
This is the ideal English pronunciation. You may not like it, but this is what peak pronunciation looks like.
I feel like it's insane for a professional chef to call charsui ramen experimental but maybe I'm just weird
I'm not objecting to getting Witch Hat Altier memes on my FYP
Japan Forum's special issue on katakana in Japanese is out @ www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjfo20/3... Check out my (OPEN ACCESS) contribution on anti-katakana discourse @ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In Japanese your voice cracking is called your voice turning inside out. So this text flipped the letters around.
Can someone explain what these hand gestures mean? Is each finger a specific amount?
My university (Macquarie) has gone up significantly in Global Rankings, but what you might not see in some coverage (including our own 😭😭😭) is that this includes languages! We are 5th in Australia now, rising over 25 places in global rankings in just a year! lighthouse.mq.edu.au/media-releas...