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ブゼンタヌキ@うたわれ@VRChat @buzentanuki.bsky.social · 5h

日本語スラングレビュー、今月も来ましたか・・・今の流行りスラングはちゃんと把握しとかないとな！

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 9h

Best part of the month is here!

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 15h

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.com/2026/09/30/j...

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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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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's strange seeing terms I've researched and covered appear in manga

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Incredible history; didn't know a lot of this.

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Incidentally, you'll notice the award was for セクシャル・ハラスメント and not the shortened, and now more popular usage, セクハラ. This was deliberate. Not everyone liked セクハラ (sekuhara). Some thought it sounded too flippant and wanted "SH" instead. Few knew what SH meant, however.

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Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating thread about the origins of the term セクハラ and one of Japan's first sexual harassment trials in the early 1990s.

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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Breaking News: Terrifying Disease First Noted in Korea Found on Japanese Shores... ...is Your Bias Safe From NAMUJABYOU? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRHE...

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Breaking News: ナムジャ病 Reaches Japanese Shores. Is YOUR Bias Safe?

YouTube video by Scripting Japan

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Weird request here, but does anyone have a copy of this lying around? I'm writing a blog piece on the history of English swearing being used in Japanese, and I really want to find out what the heck a ファックしょうん is.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026

GUY WHO CAN’T REMEMBER THE NAME “JAPAN”:

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Call for submissions: any manga panels or text from Japanese novels where a character is using an swear word original from English (in katakana is fine).

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dual pronouns for when you want to say we but your pronouns are different.

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Is there any social media platform with a search function that is more aggressively anti-function than Instagram's? It's like it's mad at you for daring to try to find something.

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hard to recommend a manga with only one volume out so far but I was immediately impressed by Room 999.

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Venicello @venicello.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

(35 year old chuunibyou) rrrgh!! the demon sealed inside my lower back... it's struggling to escape...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Hiroshima Food Snob @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Everyone shut up, my show is on!

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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.com/2026/08/31/j...

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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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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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/10.3138/...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The GOAT @scriptingjapan.bsky.social has made a video critiquing Dōgen's video. He raises several points I raised, but also points I didn't, so go watch it.

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Dogen's Minority Problem is NOT GOOD

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Japanese Talk @japanesetalk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Loan words in Japanese are Japanese, and the more I live here the more I learn how useful they are, and how they have different meanings and uses from similar kanji compounds. This is a great video from @scriptingjapan.bsky.social. m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Qk...

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Dogen's Minority Problem is NOT GOOD

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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tokyo Shimbun reports confirmation of new Immigration Agency fees from October. Status change & renewals (previously 6,000 yen) will start at 10,000 yen for 3 months, up to 75,000 yen for 5 years. Permanent residency will be 200,000 yen. www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/510617

Status change & renewals are currently a flat fee of 6,000 yen. This will change to 7 categories.
Less than 3 months - 10,000
3 - 6 months - 18,000
6 - 12 months - 25,000
12 months - 33,000
1 - 3 years - 48,000
3 - 5 years - 64,000
over 5 years = 75,000

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

these guys take it as a given that they would survive and thrive in a world of heightened academic scrutiny despite practicing warmed over pseudoscience

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Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New data from Google on emoji use frequency, and 😭 is the new number one: jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/why-drowne... (@jenniferdaniel.bsky.social's whole blog is always great)

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Why 😭 Drowned Out 😂

New data reveals a melodramatic shift in how we express ourselves.

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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Apparently there was an FtM lifestyle magazine in Japan called "LIKE-Boy-" that started in 2008. I searched a bit online. It existed until at least 2010, with at least 5 published issues. Brown University in the USA has issue 3, but apart from that, no traces of extant copies.

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 21/08/2026

"When my boss asks 'any questions?', I'd say, 'N'nya, none, thank you!' because 'n'nya' is Kagoshima dialect for 'no,' but I just realized they didn't know that and for a full year and a half thought I was a 27yo woman who sometimes speaks Cat."

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My blog is getting like 3-4 times the normally daily hits today, and Wordpress isn't logging a specific origin - does anyone know where this might be coming from?

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 18/08/2026

Meta Platforms is headed to court for a showdown with a coalition of state attorneys general over claims that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users.

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Meta stares down trillion-dollar threat as landmark social media trial begins

The attorneys general of 29 states are seeking not only massive financial penalties, but also court orders that could force Meta to change how it operates its platforms.

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I was just playing this game for Speaki and now I'm getting forced to think about class consciousness

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm never going to get this article published 😢😭

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