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.
https://wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
Dr. Wes Robertson
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あ゛あ゛
Introduction to 3rd Wave Sociolinguistics
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Ever get so annoyed at a TikTok you make a 10x times longer response?
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Made a video about some words from the doujin world that have been a source of controversy
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In Japanese your voice cracking is called your voice turning inside out. So this text flipped the letters around.
On Bluesky? All of us
It's time for the May #Japanese slang review. Check out this month to learn about:
ガンダ
生モノ, P禁, J禁
四つ耳
はかコス
ピキる
エロがる
ガチギワ
バ先
スピ活
ガリ族
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New blog post! An introduction to kurimango (栗満語), one of the most... peculiar language styles ever created in Japanese.
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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....
A lot of stories only get attention from particular slices of the news audience This one reached parts of the public interested in sports, parenting, crime & policing, and the role of AI, so it has produced a wide range of responses.
If you’ve been reading my monthly slang reviews, you’re probably no stranger to the kuriman community. I’ve mentioned this group of linguistic innovators multiple times across my …
And it’s time for the fifth 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…
