日本時間の皆様、明けましておめでとうございます🌅 帰省中でまだ大晦日で、アイル習慣でクリスマス雰囲気ぐ続くのですが、今年大変お世話になった皆様、来年もどうぞよろしくお願いします☺️

This has to be a pseudonym, right?😂

Except, presumably, the indigenous inhabitants whom the venture sought to displace?

I suspect this is the only thing anyone outside Louisiana will ever remember this dude for😬

And it came to pass that in its 1904 war with Japan, the "Soviet Union" suffered a crippling defeat. The world must indeed have looked on with great astonishment😆

The very definition of "FAFO"😓 (I don't know how, or even if, this woman voted in 2016, but for the last several years she's regularly complained on Twitter about how she the North still gets treated as being a de facto part of the EU.)

Ian's Translation Tips 049: This may be somewhat subjective, but "get on X" feels like an error for "get in on X" in cases like this. "We have to get on this Enpon Boom!" sounds like something a manager at a newspaper would say, but this a book publisher trying to get *in* on the Enpon Boom.

This is a mistranslation. The word corresponding to "May" is nowhere near the start of the poem, but "your" is substantially worse, as it is confusing the noun きみ ("my lord", "the emperor") with a homophonic pronoun used between lovers.

NHK quoted Hearn's "Hi-Mawari" this morning, but (mistakenly?) said that it recounted Hearn's memory of a forest outside Cong, Co. Mayo. Hearn's text is explicit that the memory in question is of Wales, not Mayo.

Call me a "libtard" or whatever, but I don't think governments should be *either* recruiting 17-year-olds in their armed forces or executing 17-year-old POWs.

Happy Classics Day, everyone!☺️

This is a claim I've seen Irish people with no connection to Japan (and Japanese people with little connection to Ireland) outside a professed interest in Hearn make this claim, but the evidence for it is minimal. Hearn left Ireland decades before the Celtic Revival "went mainstream", and it didn't

I know this is likely just AI slop, but I can't help but suspect that the implication that Hitler hated the English specifically and would have championed the causes of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh (or I guess "Brythonic"?) freedom is a deliberate attempt to paint these causes in a specific light.

Just heard an American call Hearn "Greek/English/Irish/American/Japanese". Better than what Gaijin Goombah pulled in the quoted post, but: (i) Describing Irish people of English heritage as "English-slash-Irish" is pretty offensive to me as an Irish person of English heritage. (ii) The same American

I highly doubt this idiot remembers the last time Ireland had the freedom to negotiate its own trade deals. (Spoiler warning: It was awful.) She just hates brown people and people who don't speak English nativelyーan ironic position for a self-professed Irish nationalist.

This being October, I can't help but remember those times I was "muricansplained" to about the home country of Lafcadio Hearn. I will probably have occasion to deliver a "mini-lecture" on this topic in a month or two, so I won't tip my hand, but Hearn was more (Anglo-)Irish than anything else.

I think a lot of well-meaning progressives in the US have a lamentable tendency to engage in this kind of ethnocentrism ("topocentrism"?)ーI was not involved in the Connolly campaign and haven't even lived in Ireland since 2012, but I'm fairly certain most Irish leftists have never heard of Zohran.

I appreciate reminders from other Irish that Ireland was pretty awful during my lifetime: ーAbortion and gay marriage not legalized until the 2010s ーDivorce not legalized until 1996 ーSame-sex sexual activity decriminalized in 1993 At least we also had James "Servant of Two Masters" Joyce on the £10.

This is new（笑）

Sawayama is not "of Japanese and British descent". Both her parents are Japanese, and she herself was born in Japan but grew up in the UK because of her father's work. This article knows she is British, but is worded to imply she is only British because of supposedly mixed "heritage".

The wording "from the White House to right wing grifters" strikes me as awkward in this context. It's similar to a Facebook post I recently saw about a certain social phenomenon plaguing Japan, "from Osaka to Hyogo"😂

Been watching a lot of "Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur" over the last month or so, and (coincidentally?) I was reminded of this SNL short yesterday. youtu.be/XVoBQqketHM?... Now I kinda want SFIA to do a scientific breakdown of it as an April Fools' special（笑）

An rón dé（笑）

I saw this play today at Isshinji Theatre. I thought it was a good modern Japanese play that explored an aspect of recent (1961) local (Amagasaki) history with which I was unfamiliar, but I think it strayed too far from what in earlier years were fairly straight adaptations of Ancient Greek plays.

Gotta love how the Japanese very clearly calls Nova an 英会話教室 while the English uses the mistaken Zainichi Ōbeijin pidgin word "Eikaiwa" to refer to the school itself.

He also repeatedly refers to Motoori Norinagaーarguably the central figure in the reception history of Genjiーas "a *Japanese* critic quoted by Donald Keene" or "this Japanese critic".

@smithsonianmag.bsky.social I searched for English-language sources that didn't contain substantial mistakes, but unfortunately your article implied that fragments of Murasaki's original manuscript survived and that Teika's critical redaction of the text was instead a "version of the story".

While I appreciate the shout-out, my view on this "lost chapter of world's first novel" nonsense was stated elsewhere.

Also, describing Classical Chinese as "not quite matching" Japaneseーa completely unrelated languageーis ... well, what it is😅

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Ironic that I misspelled "butt in"😂

Was this fact-checked by ChatGPT? Because Michael Emmerich, someone I know personally, wrote a book about the reception of The Tale of Genji, but he is not someone who's translated it.

I don't think Project Gutenberg should amplify false information like this. Surely someone over there knows the difference between a "lost chapter" (something that in Genji's case can never be found) and a "newly (read: 2019) discovered old manuscript of one of the existing chapters"?

Emmerich has written scholarly books and articles about The Tale of Genji. His "The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature" is a personal favourite. But he has never published a full translation of it. Perhaps The New Yorker confused him with Dennis Washburn?😅

Umm... what?

An unfortunate consequence of Takaichi Sanae's LDP leadership campaign is that this one American EFL teacher in Tokyo has now seemingly become obsessed with pushing a narrative on social media that it's actually aggressive deer spontaneously initiating violent conflicts with tourists😅

It's October! I can use the Internet on my phone again😆

This was a fun little film. I'm now curious about the director's other films.

Re: Why I've had occasion to think about Berserk recently Basically just YouTube randomness.

Query how accessible a "manga adaptation" that includes and introduction giving the names of all the characters, some of whom don't appear in the main text and some of whom are referred to by different names in the main text, can be.

This film from 1996 includes a line about how the first Tim Burton Batman film was bad enough that one can't believe they made two more. If only they knew😆

If I were to hazard a guess as to how this happened, I'd say that the article itself was written by someone who has seen the film and knows it is set in Jordan (not Dubai) and also knows the term "white saviour narrative", and then someone else wrote the blurb after briefly skimming the article🤦🏻‍♂️

Umm... what?

Despicable and reprehensible. It sickens me that there are Zainichi-Ōbeijins who respond to stuff like this with "I can't believe the xenophobic Japanese are blaming foreigners for this". (i) Japanese don't do stuff like this when they visit your countries, let alone in Japan, so

Expo Karuta Festival. I got slaughtered in the first round, but still good craic all round.

This guy looks like he's a Japan resident who pays for Paramount+ because he's a fan of Star Trek,* Cheers/Frasier,** and South Park.***

Presented without context: My general opinion on time-slip stories😂

These comments annoyed me more than I expected they would. Yes, both of these pronunciations exist, but they are not "dialects" (of Irish!?). The former is the "standard" Anglo-Irish pronunciation used by the 90% of Irish whose Gaeilge is not as good as some of them would have you believe, while the

oh my god someone teach it to say Son Heung-min

If your post includes 31 words, two of which are proper nouns, and you misspell both of those proper nouns while spelling the other 29 words perfectly, that's not a typo; it's you not knowing the topic you're posting about.