"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" when sung in the fashion of the 90s cartoon is in trochaic tetrameter but then shifts to some kind of pentameter for for the lyrics.

Someone I follow retweeted someone who mentioned Ace Combat. Okay, Adam. Be cool.

So I think JLPT went okay. My first instinct was "reading comp and grammar was so much easier this year." Or, maybe a better take, I read like 150 NHK articles this year and spammed grammar practice. Listening comp was well it was typical. I expect 25 out of 60 on that.

Twas the night before JLPT, and all through the house, I FEEL THE WEIGHT OF DOUBT UPON ME.

When I'm making vocab cards in Anki, I like to punch the target word into google and see what images it gives me Today's word 競争する (to complete), and here's my favourite image.

My spidey sense around the whole "no mobile unit" policy for JLPT is that it's going to turn into an enforcement nightmare that will probably make JLPT take an hour longer than it needs to as proctors attempt to police hallways with the ersatz authority of Joe Dredd.

Sometimes the long dormant art critic in me stirs. Today it was due to a chat about Alien Earth.

I am starting to believe that JLPT vocab and kanji levels come out of a cursed slot machine. Because I just came face to face with this in the もんだい１ of an N4 prep.

Wait, tell me more about Vulcan Columbo.

Ah yes, the ol' late November JLPT pie fight, Which causative-passive is more correct. is it 買わせられる or 買わされる

So the guy who made the dumbest, loudest Star Trek movie is going to be trusted with a Helldivers movie.

Historical monographs were a big influence in my writing style. You better fucking believed they put whole ass paragraphs between the em-dashes. It's how boring white dudes broke the 4th wall before Deadpool, and I'm not going to stop doing it.

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

*Three year old niece attempting to climb up my leg whilst I am sitting on the couch.* Me: Halt, papers please. Niece: *hands imaginary papers without missing a beat* Me: Stamp is expired. No admittance. Glory to Arstotzka. Niece: *laughing* Glory to Azz---ka Wife: *shaking her head*

You're telling me that 溶かす・溶ける are not only N4 vocabulary but fair game for a transitivity problem.

Hey Google, play Forces by Susumu Hirasawa.

Prepping for N4 is an endlessly humbling adventure of seeing adverbs that you're "supposed to know" but in some cases have never seen despite generally studying content at an N3 level.

This is the absolute most dirty pool I've ever seen in a JLPT prep question. Nobody uses the kanji in てみる

After we put the cat down last week, I put on season 1 of Enterprise because I didn't feel like engaging with much of anything. 13 episodes later and man, this show must have made the ghost of Roddenberry cry (a good thing). Perpetually horny all the time.

Not today, Satan. You wanted me to pick が but I'm not picking が because that would mean, *said in my Greg Davies affect* "My Japanese was praised by the teacher and HE was glad for it."

I've lost an hour to trying to figure out why たべられる and たべることができる aren't effectively the same answer in this scenario.

Had an entire stress dream where I was a Steiner Atlas pilot, but the only reason I was deployed was to be seen as the biggest threat on the field and just soak damage while the rest of my lance mates did the actual mission. My mech got cored 3 times, with 3 bail outs, in the dream.

I would laugh until I coughed blood if this turned out to be season 3 of SGU.

Absolutely nothing like JLPT prep to make me feel like I don't understand Japanese at all. I mean I know I'm not an idiot, but clocking the nuance between どうやって洗ってもいいですか and どうやって洗ったらいいですか in 25 seconds feels goddamn impossible.

Days like this I wish I was still actively writing reviews because I would love 800 words to explain why you can't give the Running Man a happy ending and claim to be honouring the source material, which textually states that you can't beat the system.

Today in JLPT Presents, "Really? Really!" 載る。 本当？本当！ お客様、これはN４でございます。

I didn't expect putting 関係 into google image search would yield some truly dubious results.

There’s a Karaoke Bar located in the part of Maspeth that’s just industrial machinery and old graves and it has no reviews on yelp and every room looks like if you tried to recreate the set of Deep Space 9 using stuff from Alibaba.

George Lucas, a weeb, created a character called Han Solo and I'm supposed to just assume it's a fucking coincidence that the Japanese for 'to transport' - which is the type of ship he flies - is 搬送する Hansou and Han Solo are just totally unrelated cosmic jazz?

Yesterday I saw my senior cat off to his ancestors. Today I read this in an essay. "...It's hard to be a dude, suggest a O'Malley and Robinson, not because of some grand conspiracy of wokeness set to undermine America's men but because it is hard to be anybody these days"

JLPT, why are you like this?

Another entry in what is now going to become a running series of google image results for Japanese words going in an unexpected direction. The word: 頼る - to depend upon, to rely upon The image

When someone still has the nerve to ask me, "Why learn Japanese" I like pointing to things like this and saying, "To understand why"

What am I missing where one can't use のに to say, "Despite studying a lot the exam was very difficult?" I don't see why しても is more correct.

The classic blunder: not taking the extra second to think about which way お母さん is scolding 息子 in the dialogue and picking 勉強するな instead of 勉強しなさい Come on, Adam, Bruce Lee taught you this one. 考えるな、感じろ。

Tonight in Star Wars RPG: We were trying to get these mermaids off Yavin 8 because some imperials were doing research on a bad force thing that was poisoning the local water supply. The plan: covert a ship to haul 100 mermiads to a new home.

So... Two 日本語 revelations for today. 1) Somehow I got to this point thing that 欲しがる/ほしがっている/たがる/たがっている were literally the only things you used the がる suffix with. 2) Why I struggle with adverbs: 90% of my reading is newspapers and periodicals.

In other monuments to failure, today's JLPT prep invites a genuinely painful composition question.

I am not a sports person. I am an artist. Baseball is human art.

God damn Yamamoto has an arm.

The shit posts we will get if a white boy called Will Smith wins the world series.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

That was not the kind of Springer Dinger we wanted.

LET'S FUCKING GO

Well this sure is some baseball narrative.

The Jays fans heckling Ohtani with the same cadence that Bart and Lisa used on Darryl Strawberry.

I understand this reference.