I might post more of these Japanese “vibe words” sometimes. I’m going to make wholesome posts far more often. I need breaks from Hellworld and its ever breaking horrible news.

Japanese sound symbolism

The Japanese language has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones. Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese. Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words do not just imitate sounds but also cover a much wider range of meanings; indeed, many sound-symbolic words in Japanese are for things that make no noise originally, most clearly demonstrated by ‘silently’ (しーんと, shīnto), not to be confused with the religion Shintō.

Bluesky is buggy and it keeps resetting my languages to “English, Japanese”. I finally got tired of fixing it every time and I decided to roll with it. For some reason Bluesky has a surprising number of posts in Japanese.

Question 1: Should I cross post them? I could put it in c/food. Or is that more spammy than useful?

Question 2: Is there a better place to put them than c/anime? Should I use c/LanguageLearning instead?

  • Breath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Thanks for posting a good vibe! Those are harder to find most of the time.

    Because of the cartoon aspect I think anime is fine, but putting regular Japanese stuff in anime has the potential to be an issue… I think.

    Cross posting to language learning would be great! I’m sure the that some people like language learning stuff while disliking anime enough to not sub or to block.