There exist other fields which similarly counsel dropping a shibboleth in the first sentence. For example, if you are an entrepreneur in any of the hottest four fields this year in Silicon Valley, you should probably distinguish yourself from folks who read about the field once.
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Example: "What's your startup?" "Oh we're in data science." versus "Cloud hosting for Jupiter so that data scientists spend less time doing devops." (That would be a better answer most of the time, but *really* important for hot fields.)
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Similarly there is a handshake protocol here: if someone responds to that second sentence with "Oh cool data science is so important" you can write down their chance of being a practitioner or informed consumer of it to below 1%.
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(Nothing wrong with that, morally speaking, but there are a great many conversations which work better when you understand where you are at in them.)
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My stock answer to this question in Spanish used to be: "I took several years in school, but I don't remember much."
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I liked it because it became more true over time.
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Is hiragana worth learning for someone going to japan for 2 weeks or just focus on katakana for navigation and cultural respect?
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i think bang/buck is much better on spoken versus written. metro navigation is mostly english and alphanumeric ids (nakameguro station is TY03/H01), and nothing shows cultural respect more than learning some polite phrases: https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=en&tl=ja&text=Your%20red%20track%20jacket%20is%20very%20handsome …!
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Japanese culture reminds me a lot of British culture at times like this. (Nobel laureate: Well I suppose I might dabble in a bit of science)
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It's an art form to add such layers of humbleness (i.e. 一応) in the Japanese language to maintain 和. Though, I wonder how you address communication gaps, when a person isn't direct in what he/she is really thinking.
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Addressing communication gaps is another art form in itself. But because many issues are dealt with indirectly, it’s often unclear whether or not a message has been received and understood.
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