cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2728383

Is there an interest in this comm for Japanese sound symbolism?

• If you’re studying Japanese - I’m surely not going to share something you can’t easily find yourself.

• If you’re not studying Japanese - are you still interested?

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?