PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS - AKIRA

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Oh, see, there we go. No wonder I'm in the dark.

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I tend to do that.

. . . make jokes that people not from my world or world similar to mine don't get.

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[another laugh]

That's just what happens with cultural differences. Don't beat yourself up.

Besides, that's not what I meant. You learned that through schooling, right?

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Mmm. We didn't spend a lot of time on it, since it was English literature, but we touched on it in my English class.

[idk Japanese schools but that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it]

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"English." [voiced out, the word foreign] So, a specific form of language, or is it something different that would give it its own teaching of literature?

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Hm. Both.

[both is good!]

We focus more on the language in school, but sometimes that draws us back to classical English literature. It all depend son the context.

time to trap al's typos again

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You're from Japan, right? Is English the native tongue? [We are all speaking babelfish here so it's a legitimate question okay.]

NOOOOOOOO

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Ah, no. Japanese is our native tongue.

[he realized they were speaking babelfish ages ago so it's fine]

But they make a point to teach us English in school, anyway.

[alongside Japanese]

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Good to know being bilingual isn't too out of the norm, then.

[This is wildly off topic from what Akira came to talk about, but Guy seems to be welcome to the distraction of talking about another person.]

Is schooling required for everyone where you live?

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They're preparing us for the real world.

[they might be wildly off topic, but Akira doesn't seem to mind. sometimes you just have to shoot the shit]

And it is until we reach about 18, though you have to pass certain tests before being promoted to the next level.

At 18 we take university entrance exams, which determine if we can pursue higher education or not.

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Higher education... What, you mean like becoming a scholar?

[what is a College]

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Ssssomething like that. Though higher education prepares you for being a whole bunch of things.

Like a lawyer or a doctor or a starving student in crippling debt.

[o]

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[... why debt???

squints]

Geez.... what's the point of that kind of schooling if you have to go into debt? That's backwards.

I guess I shouldn't say that, though. I don't know much about it.

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The logic is that you pay a lot to go to school but you get a better-paying job than if you don't.

[is that how it actually works, tho?? lol]

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[gettin depressed in the meta tonight, folks]

So just pay money to get a step ahead... Do people not do apprenticeships where you're from?