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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 19h

プフィファリンゲの時期だけではなくて、フェストもある。ミュンヘンのオクトーバーフェストの方が世界中の人気があるが、シュトゥットガルトのフォークフェストもとてもいいよ。同じく大きくてうるさい。 (実はうるさすぎてわざわざ行かないけど今日は友達に誘われたので敢えて…でかビール🍻や大盛りのポークポテ料理に負けず😵‍💫)

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No, probably neither. He probably wouldn't grasp it. He's still on a ship to or from 'Spring Break Iraq 2003' and only beginning to understand what a circuitous path life can take.

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

大空港Gate 24を観てる。面白いけど、「なんと」がちょっとむかつく #bluesky秋の個人情報漏洩祭り

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's a poster you had up in your room growing up? This was one of my first posters, surrounded by others of Metallica and Gibson Les Pauls...

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

妻は「バカやろ」じゃなくて「ブタやろ」を言うのが好き。(僕にのみ) #bluesky秋の個人情報漏洩祭り

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

写真に写っているのは僕の腕です。実は右側にも1本あります。 #bluesky秋の個人情報漏洩祭り

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe it's the 90s kid nostalgia. I don't know. But I can't stop laughing at this and that's actually a relief after my anxiety alarm clock went off (again) a couple hours before my actual alarm clock.

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wading a little deeper into these waters (ever wary of pirates, of course) by juggling two more books on Somalia and Horn of Africa. Fascinating subject, especially de Waal's political marketplace framework. Of course, although my work has little to do with Japan, I seldom explore any new...

Two books on Somalia and Horn of Africa issues. I.M. Lewis' Modern History of the Somali, and Alex de Waal's Real Politics of the Horn of Africa

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

南ドイツではプフィファリンゲ(アンズタケ)の時期です！スープもソースもう~~~まっ🤩

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good review of Parallel Texts for learning Japanese. I didn't know about this when I first started reading in Japanese but wish I did. I read the French Parallel Text short stories recently and it was a great way to take of the training wheels. Gave me the confidence to go after novels #langsky

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Ian Sacks @iansacks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Canonical way to translate 色々訊きたい

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Realizing this isn't the point of this solid post about Duolingo*, I thought the first two lines were gold: "I’ve been learning Japanese for twenty years, but it hasn’t been consistent. I’ve stopped and started, bounced around multiple different study methods, and overall had a very slapdash...

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

static.klipy.com

Laurel And Hardy Smack

Alt: Laurel And Hardy Smack

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

About to start something new at work but I dont want to put JPN reading aside while I study up, so i found a compromise. Sometimes the best way to study a language is to have fun/do what you were going to fo anyway, just in that language.

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 11/09/2026

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 253 of The Continent Three years before 9/11, Al-Qaeda carried out its first major attack in Africa. Twenty-five years later, the continent is living with the consequences of a war on terror. bit.ly/253_TC

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いまがわ @imagawa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

わーい中間選考に通過してました！ありがとうございます！！

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not entirely odd (nor entirely "paid" (to me)), but as a grad student working part time in the East Asian collection, the Japanese section librarian let me shop for books to bolster the relatively small Okinawan collection while on vacation in Okinawa. I would have been practically living in ...

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

野良猫がうちの猫だと思って近所の人は僕のドアチャイムを鳴らした。猫を指して「あんたの猫が入りたいよ」とあまりわからないドイツ語でもどうも理解して"Ah, Hallo. Aber es is nicht meine..."と言ってから続いてフランス語ばかりがでて"mais il vient chez nous presque tous les jours...えぇ、すみません[と日本語になっちゃって]ドイツ語がnicht so gut..."とわけがわからなくなった途端に妻が現れてまた日本語の会話になった。ドイツ人は静かに逃げたけど、ぼくたちはなんだと思ってただろう… でもフランス語上達だな🙂

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

今日は、Breungingerlandというモールに行った。僕は新しい洋服を(いつも)買わないと行けない。娘のドレスを買って、自分のスコッチ1本も買って、今は穴だらけの何よりも気持ちいいシャツを着て、飲みながら「進撃の巨人」を読んでる。それを成功と思っておく、

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is cool. I was Padma, born in 1320 on the Ganges plain. I died of dysentery in 1326. RIP

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Semi-shameless plug for 目取真俊's short story: 「ブラジルおじいの酒」which deals with Brazilian Japanese through the lens of the Okinawan diaspora. Find it in the 「平和通と名付けられた街を歩いて」短編集, which has the most stark and moving cover for a collection of stories that cover "postwar" Okinawan trauma in fiction. #沖縄本

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm in Germany so it doesn't count. (I'm just trying to manifest a 里帰り😭)

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🎶 If you're going to Oooo-kinawa, Be sure to weeear an Orion Beer t-shirt🎵 帰れるとなるんだったらもう毎日着る😭😭

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another good thread elaborating on the one previously shared about grad school reading. Again, had I KNOWN THIS in grad school I could have "read" less and been able to "read" more. 😣

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On a brighter note, here in Stuttgart, Cannstatter Volkfest starts soon. More reason to drink...😒

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our intrepid explorer, never tethered to the mast of reason, hears the sirens call and tumbles headlong... into the French section of the Oxfam used bookshop #booksky #icantstopbuyingbooksgoddamnyouscholasticbookfair

Two books in French: one by Joël Dicker and one by JMG Le Clézio

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Next French reading challenge, a book that perhaps needs no intro. Honestly: I've never read this before. So I'm glad to finally read it in the original. (And maybe find out from the accompanying essays why Edward Hopper was used for cover art. Not that I mind--I prefer this cover to the one...

Cover of L'Étranger by Albert Camus featuring Edward Hopper's 'Conference at Night'

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Having planned various trips for friends and family visiting us in Germany from Japan, this comic is painfully accurate!

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The "y" in archaic spellings like "ye olde bookshope" isn't meant to be a "y" as we know it now but the Old English letter "þ" or "thorn" and pronounced "th". This was converted to "y" with the invention of movable type printing but still meant to be pronounced "th" þ survives in Icelandic today

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nailed it. I am from Delaware (and yes, I've seen Wayne's World). There are dozens of us. DOZENS.

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Very interesting thread on a skill I assumed was inborn to all but me in grad school, something I knew of as the 'grad school skim'. This thread impresses on one the need for good, clear writing as well. (God what a lost art as evidenced by my work inbox (and admittedly the outbox sometimes...))

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The birthplace of Mercedes and Porsche, where one can daily see Lamborghinis, Ferraris, or McLarens on driving around; and me in my Volkswagen: all stuck in traffic

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stuttgart deserves the nickname "Staugartt"

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The analysis was interesting nonetheless! (I stand by what I said about Stockholm syndrome and Kanji.)

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Great thread giving examples of the (mis)use of Chinese characters in Korean. Very interesting not just for anyone with an abiding in Chinese characters but also for those who have Stockholm syndrome from studying them in Japanese.

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes! Should have been a trigger warning on the OP because I immediately thought of the ordeal of trying to read Kawabata in Japanese when my level was more ぐりぐら level... I found affirmation in a journal entry by Donald Richie and determined to learn the kanji anyway (still struggle with fish though)

Journal entry from Donald Richie Japan Journals

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'll admit (now) that I never got around to watching Die Hard until about a year ago 😬 (FWIW, I watched it over a Christmas break)

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just finished reading my first book in French (with heavy reliance on a French-only dictionary). "Stupeur et Tremblements" by Amélie Nothomb👍 It's a good feeling. Reminds me of the first Japanese book I slogged through with only a denshi-jisho and stubborn fortitude: 「空港にて」村上龍. This was pre-N2...

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I first heard about island (archipelagic?) studies when I was in grad school, but I made what still seems like the wise decision to not do a PhD. But my mind still stirs up "but what ifs" and since I'm busy at work I'm going to push the thought into the void as a plug for the late Okifumi Komesu.

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Sain't Christopher @orionstoe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

J'ai bu trop du vin rouge allemand... à l’an prochain, la fête de vins Stuttgart 🍷🍷😵‍💫🥴

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