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Oct 27, 2018

(2) ... "descriptive" Japanese, where examinees will be required to read parking lot lease agreements and similar documents. He goes on to say that the latest revision of the Japanese-language education system in Japan requires high school management to choose ...

Oct 27, 2018

(3) ... between "Japanese language for literature" and "Japanese language for logic." In preparation for university entrance exams, most high schools are expected to choose "logical Japanese." Literary works are disappearing from high schools.

Oct 27, 2018

(4) The original tweeter giving this quote deplores that Japan is on its quick way to extinction. I wonder what is happening to the education of native and foreign languages in other countries. Is literature useless, as many people seem to be asserting nowadays?

antoine sugar

@joedan346

Humanity is devolving back to an oral, tribalistic revival via electronic media. Literacy is outdated; archaic. Get with it, old man.

Well, I'm the kind of guy that would rather rebel in this devolution of humankind toward general idiocy. I refuse to be content to be with pigs who constitute the majority.

antoine sugar

@joedan346

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4:45 PM · Oct 28, 2018Twitter Web Client

I hear that. I'm a lonely sonuvabitch. Very few I can bear to be around for very long. The pigheaded, functionally illiterate ignorance is really strong here in America.

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@joedan346

(1) Yeah, Antwan, now that you say it, I think I can imagine what a difficult position you are in. Although I've never been in your country, I hear it's full of anti-intellectualism. (And Panda says that trend is strong in her country as well.)