Post B22JAVn6B6eTYDnePA by elilla@transmom.love
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 (DIR) Post #B22JANtBYald2maOmW by elilla@transmom.love
       2026-01-07T08:06:15Z
       
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       I never felt old learning about new slang in Portuguese, English, or German, but for some reason I can't put my finger on, learning about new Japanese slang makes me feel old.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyxROJm4I8
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JAPKsB8VbWwY1Zo by coolbean@brain.worm.pink
       2026-01-07T08:08:46.250113Z
       
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       @elilla how many of them are just english loanwords? cause i suspect that might be it
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JAQmumMXA2CfvvM by elilla@transmom.love
       2026-01-07T08:13:40Z
       
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       @coolbean "English loanword" is just an expression that means "Japanese". that's the least surprising thing ever in Japanese. about 30% of modern spoken Japanese by token count is English loanword.  and no, most of the new slang featured in this video isn't even gairaigo
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JARfVVOCclWDX16 by coolbean@brain.worm.pink
       2026-01-07T08:32:09.702037Z
       
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       @elilla huhidk i was just reminded of a japanese speaker that moved overseas returning to visit family and having a lot of difficulty navigating shops and restaurants because even more terms got replaced by katakana while they were gone and sort of relating to that somewhat since in german "business" students all seem to see english as a prestige language and insist on using it for terms that already had german equivalents (e.g. online stores calling the kasse a checkout)
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JASC7Y8I4OfTZqq by coolbean@brain.worm.pink
       2026-01-07T08:32:25.560850Z
       
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       @elilla it all went wrong when we stopped calling computers "rechner"
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JAVn6B6eTYDnePA by elilla@transmom.love
       2026-01-07T08:12:29Z
       
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       maybe it's because like, I spent way too many years wasting my time with Japanese courses that 1) didn't work, 2) overfocused on schoolbook language that nobody uses. so it was a big victory to step outside of the grammar exercises and learn casual Japanese which allowed me to like, not just talk to people online but watch TV or read books, since the characters in the TVs and books don't speak textbook either.so I probably have stuff like that in my mind as "my Japanese". like at some point I felt pretty proud that I could get the nuances of (the casual meaning of) -派 / -族 / -系, so I'm like eeeh we're doing -界隈 now??
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JAes2Q6wzi9BDqy by elilla@transmom.love
       2026-01-07T08:17:33Z
       
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       -界隈 sounds really funny tho, top slang to be sure. I was included in the ヒートテック界隈 vicinity and didn't even know it
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JAnEfJrntedpPEW by elilla@transmom.love
       2026-01-07T08:18:22Z
       
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       I wanna see an edobashiri vs. naruto run team competition event
       
 (DIR) Post #B22JAvHnO73qcfM1Ds by elilla@transmom.love
       2026-01-07T08:32:22Z
       
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       linguistically the ones that interest me the most are ぬ and the "I'm ded" sense of シヌ. now I might be wrong here and I will *definitely* check this out in Praat later today but I'm pretty sure their シヌ is distinguished from regular 死ぬ by tone, HL rather than LH. this would be interesting in of itself, but then there's the fascinating fact that they advise that it's used with raising intonation! while for laypeople "intonation" and "accent" (=tone) isn't clearly distinguished it seems that here it's, in fact, intonation proper—note that シヌ is a shūjoshi, a sentence-ending particle, which means raising intonation at this point means uptalk, which is common in like, gyaru speech.in the example at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyxROJm4I8&t=2m20s ~2:20,the combined effect is HL͜H, /ɕi˥.nɯ˩˥/, which I think is related to the universal of the "contradictory contour", which fits the kind of situation where シヌ is used. (this analysis pending acoustic investigation).#japanese #linguistics
       
 (DIR) Post #B22KNjAjq1Ealris8e by coolbean@brain.worm.pink
       2026-01-07T08:48:38.697945Z
       
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       @rowb1t @elilla waow i love that
       
 (DIR) Post #B22oou9a7BdHGy3aCW by scathach@stereophonic.space
       2026-01-07T14:36:06.626349Z
       
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       @rowb1t @coolbean @elilla Compy