From Newsgroup: sci.lang.japan
There's interesting factoids about
the spellings of Gingko (nuts), and the girl name Imogen.
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I saw a beer bottle in a store-- the cap seemed intact, but the
content was 10% missing.
I thought about getting it, but I didn't buy it.
"HenHanna" <
HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> wrote:
There is a viral Clip (from Florida ?) about the Woke He/She (misgendering)
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
The chatbot wrote,
| A groundbreaking study, published by researchers including
| Associate Professor Tomoko Matsumoto from the Tokyo University of
| Science, demonstrates how linguistic data can act as an early warning
| system for tracking exclusionary nationalism and impending
| geopolitical conflict.
|
| By monitoring how 54 Japanese newspapers rendered foreign place names
| over three decades, the study revealed that anti-foreign sentiment did
| not steadily climb, but rather oscillated sharply in response to
| political tipping points.
|
| The mechanics, key historical turning points, and strategic
| differentiation discovered in the Tokyo University of Science study
| include:
|
| The Linguistic Metric: Katakana vs. Ateji
|
| Katakana (Foreign Standard) Phonetic script normally used to embrace
| foreign loanwords and names neutrally.
|
| Ateji (Native Kanji) Substituting native Chinese characters to force
| foreign words into a traditional script.
|
| The Hypothesis Shifting from katakana to ateji for a country's
| geographic locations signaled a linguistic rejection of foreign
| identity, mirroring an increase in exclusionary nationalism.
|
| Four Critical Historical Turning Points
|
| Using a statistical method called singular spectrum transformation,
| the researchers pinpointed four major shift-points in public
| sentiment:
|
| 1. 1924 (Internationalist Shift): Katakana usage spiked after Foreign
| Minister Kij+2r+i Shidehara took office, reflecting a temporary era
| of peaceful international cooperation.
|
| 2. 1927 (Nationalist Pivot): Sentiment reversed toward ateji as
| hardline domestic and foreign policies began taking root.
|
| 3. 1936 (The Structural Rise): Exclusionary nationalism firmly
| crystallized as a dominant public force, aligning with the signing
| of the Anti-Comintern Pact.
|
| 4. 1938 (Wartime Mobilization): Media patterns shifted heavily toward
| domestic control following the National Mobilization Law.
|
| The Friend-Enemy Linguistic Divide
|
| Long before the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Japanese media
| began treating countries differently based on future alliances:
|
| Future Enemies The United States and the United Kingdom saw their
| names heavily converted into native-character ateji as political
| hostility escalated.
|
| Future Allies Germany and Italy largely retained their
| foreign-sounding katakana spellings, showing that the media preserved
| a linguistic acceptance of friendly powers.
|
| This methodology provides a modern framework for data scientists and
| historians to monitor contemporary state-controlled media, utilizing
| shifts in daily vocabulary and grammar as predictive text indicators
| for foreign policy crises.
- what the chatbot wrote.
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