Japanese ads can feel noisy, confusing or just plain weird — but none of it is accidental. Copywriters bend grammar, skip verbs and use puns to make you want to spend your cash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/02/02/language/commercial-advertising-japanese-phrases/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #grammar #advertising #jlptn2
Roland
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Gabriele Svelto
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Open request to the users of Mastodon: if you use an acronym, please spell it out the first time you use it in each post. You know what the acronym means, but Mastodon is huge and there are people all over the world who may be reading your post. Telling us that some alphabet soup did something means nothing if it just comes out as alphabet soup!
It's standard practice in journalism and writing to fully write out the words of an acronym the first time it's used. Please think of your readers.
Thanks!
#Mastodon #acronym #ACriminalRegimentOfNastyYoungMen #grammar #usage #courtesy
Open request to the users of Mastodon: if you use an acronym, please spell it out the first time you use it in each post. You know what the acronym means, but Mastodon is huge and there are people all over the world who may be reading your post. Telling us that some alphabet soup did something means nothing if it just comes out as alphabet soup!
It's standard practice in journalism and writing to fully write out the words of an acronym the first time it's used. Please think of your readers.
Thanks!
#Mastodon #acronym #ACriminalRegimentOfNastyYoungMen #grammar #usage #courtesy
phildini
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English debates “they.” Japanese debates “I.” This week we look at how pronouns, names and suffixes encode gender — often in opposite ways. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/01/23/language/japanese-pronouns-nonbinary-language/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #grammar #pronouns
A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
#HackerNews #programminglanguage #Turkish #grammar #innovation #KipDili
Joel Michael
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Why the Oxford comma is important.
Why the Oxford comma is important.
The fabulous @eddietonkoi is back with another fabulous contribution, this time on how he uses the open source Language Tool to create "house rules" for grammar checking for his wife's books.
