A replication (with Japanese-language speakers and English-language speakers) of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize-winning experiment (with only English-language speakers) about swearing and pain, described by one of the researchers, in The Conversation: Swearing helps us battle pain – no matter what language we curse in The new study is “Swearing as a response to pain: A […]
Tag: Japanese
Intimate exaltation in Japanese, in English
How does one come to understand the concept and role of intimate exaltation — especially intimate exaltation in Japanese — if one does not speak Japanese or live in Japan? One place to start: “Speech-style shifts and intimate exaltation in Japanese,” Yoko Hasegawa, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 269-284, […]
Goo Labs’ search engine for Kawaii, things that are cute
Japan, arguably the world’s epicentre of cuteness, has the word ‘Kawaii’ to refer to an entity’s degree of cuteness. With this in mind, researchers at Goo Labs developed an unusual internet search engine – one which attempted to rank results according to how cute they were. Details were provided in Chapter 12 of the 2012 […]
Dr. Nakamats, in Russian, at length
Nearly an hour of the Russian edition of the documentary film about 2005 Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Nakamats is online. Dr. Nakamats won his prize for having photographed and alylized every meal he consumed during a period of 34 years [a streak which he has since extended], which is but one of his many […]