/lit/ - Literature

I feel like explaining something from Japanese 4chan (2channel) that's been stuck in my head. Like us, they have a distinctive style of writing everyone identifies with the site. But for them, this style (language) belongs to one board - the "stream anything" board known for baseball. They all write in a dialect that supposedly belongs to fans of the Hanshin Tigers, but it caught on so that everyone uses it, and it's popular on the rest of the net now too. Unlike 4chan speak though it doesn't use many buzzwords. Instead they use different sentence enders. If you don't know any Japanese, sentence enders are small particles with no direct meaning, but change the tone of the sentence. Not using a sentence ender sounds blunt, so in casual speech they're everywhere. The most notable thing about their dialect is it replaces most uses of だ (da) with や (ya). だ is the casual version of the copula です (desu), so it just means "to be". Since it's a sentence ender, this doesn't change the meaning, but it does change the tone. To Japanese speakers it sounds more casual, rough, and laid-back, like an exaggerated form of kansai-ben. The area on the map in yellow is the Kansai area, so you can see how this developed.

The point is this accent is really catchy and I've started to think in it a bit. It's fully useless to know this but I suppose it's an autistic niche of mine