#language: japanese

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

恋は戦争 [Love is War] • ハートブレイカー [Heart Breaker] • メルト [Melt] • ブラック★ロックシューター [Black★Rock Shooter] • くるくるまーくのすごいやつ [Amazing Thing with the Whirling Mark] • ライン [Line] • ワールドイズマイン [World is Mine] • 初めての恋が終わる時 [When the First Love Ends] • 嘘つきのパレード [Parade of Liars] • その一秒スローモーション [That One Second in Slow Motion] • ひねくれ者 [The Rebel] • またね [Till We Meet Again]

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[shinknocks]

RAW-mis: Day 2 - Good Luck Couple

Happy second day of RAW-mis! Todays release is 夫婦善哉 (Good Luck Couple) by artist: ムツ and produced by circle: カリユガ. It was first published on 25/06/2000. It is approximately 40 pages long. Zosan. OtakuRepublic Link here.

Japanese RAW can be found here! (MediaFire)

[weekly-utau-originals]

This week's UTAU original song is Urami Koushin by Inemuri featuring Utane Uta

[obscurespotify]

cow minds by the world's most precious cows

<1k song plays with 42 monthly listeners

[doyouknowthismcyt]

[doyouknowthismusical]

[laromp3]

罪と罰 (Crime and Punishment) - 椎名林檎 (Sheena Ringo)

[zerosocialskillz]

Let me try this

So let the wheel decide your Japanese first-person pronoun

Note: descriptions may be inaccurate.

[hemi-online]

Fact Sheet: Preventing Diarrhea After a Disaster (CDC, 2018)

PDF on archive.org | PDF on personal mirror

1 page Published or updated 2018 | Archived version from February 2025

ℹ️🗽 This material was produced by an agency of the U.S. federal government before 2025. ℹ️🕰️ This material is more than 5 years old.

Use this fact sheet to learn how to avoid getting diarrhea after a disaster. Key steps include using safe water, washing your hands, eating safe food, cleaning up safely, and avoiding areas with standing water.

More languages: Spanish (mirror) | Chamorro (mirror) | Chinese (simplified) (mirror) | Chuukese (mirror) | Japanese (mirror) | Korean (mirror) | Tagalog (mirror) | Vietnamese (mirror)

[onlywomenbands]

A math-music band from Japan.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

キラメキの中で... • Deep Slow • 誘惑 • 青の世界 • 神風 • ZERO • ドレス • LION • Madman Blues －ミナシ児ノ憂鬱－ • die • D・T・D

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[shinknocks]

RAW-mis: Day 1 - Viva Ra Festa!

Happy first day of RAW-mis! Todays release is Viva Ra Festa! by artist: S木チズル and produced by circle: Musoujin. It was first published on 06/19/2005 and ties in with the 6th One Piece Movie. It is approximately 36 pages long. No ship and is SFW. OtakuRepublic Link here.

Japanese RAW can be found here! (MediaFire)

[weekly-utau-originals]

This week's UTAU original song is Boku-ra wa Genchou by HasakiToru featuring Michishirube Kiro

[obscurespotify]

toxic candy girl by xteen

5,473 song plays with 676 monthly listeners

[ikuzeminna]

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!