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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why does it come up with ネットミeme?

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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 · 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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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 · 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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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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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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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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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Oh boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Using out of date Japanese netslang at work because I have free will

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It doesn't seem like a good thing that this is a real US Department of Education post

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Obviously yomu is mostly reading but it can mean count

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Using out of date Japanese business slang at work because I have free will

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is the ideal English pronunciation. You may not like it, but this is what peak pronunciation looks like.

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I feel like it's insane for a professional chef to call charsui ramen experimental but maybe I'm just weird

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I'm not objecting to getting Witch Hat Altier memes on my FYP

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

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....

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In Japanese your voice cracking is called your voice turning inside out. So this text flipped the letters around.

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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Can someone explain what these hand gestures mean? Is each finger a specific amount?

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