Raoul Schubert
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Raoul Schubert
@raoulschubert.bsky.social
Linguist, researcher and all around nerd (he/him)

Current main areas: Sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, computational linguistics

ENG/GER/日本語/繁體中文
Wrap your head around this:
The loanword "Survey" in German is masculine (der Survey)

The four German synonyms given here are all feminine (die Untersuchung, die Studie, die Erhebung, die Vermessung)
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Original Japanese version for reference (specifically the 騒がない part)
November 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Love that they used "horseplay" on this poster at our local gym, no tomfoolery allowed!
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Can't even pretend to be shocked, once you noticed you couldn't unsee all the weirdly specific references to (foreign) nationalities
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Sunday afternoon is glossing time
October 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Got absolutely garden path'd by this YouTube thumbnail
October 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I'm having a very amusing morning, came across this book called Exercises in the Yokohama Dialect from 1879
October 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I love localization trivia. Came across yōkan at a shop here and had a real eureka moment like "It's a pun!"
October 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Very excited about having our article published in the journal Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) 😄
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
So excited to have finally made it to Tokyo 🗼
September 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
First time glossing Japanese data in LaTeX, we love it when interlinear glosses gloss interlinearly 👍 #linguistics
September 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What would Saturdays be without arranging discourse trees on your living room floor?

Yes, I had to move the sofa out of the way for this!
September 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM