Sanseido Word-Wise Web ［三省堂辞書サイト］ » An Unofficial Guide for Japanese Characters 20In previous installments, we have touched upon “character-particles” used on the Internet, such as the “pyoon” in “Usoda-yo-pyoon” (Just kidding-pyoon) (parts 1 and 10). The fact that character-particles appear at the very end of sentences (in the above example, after the sentence-ending particle “yo”), may be related to the observations made by Yoichi Fujiwara (1909–2007). He argues that in the M
