Monday May 28, 2012

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    passingtime

    Nice article.

    I would tend to agree with all the points made and add that japanese students tend to have a couple of self destructive assumptions, one is that they will always suck so there is no point in even trying to get it right if they can just get it in the ball park, and the second is that they can suck horrendously but the victims of their sentences will be able to figure out what they are trying to say anyway.

    I spend all my time trying to keep my students using simple sentences and not constantly try to us the flowery metaphors and idioms that they seem to think will make them more artsy and intuitive or something.

    Posted in: Why are Japanese so bad at English?

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    passingtime

    Oh Yeah, I forgot to mention. My wife abandoned my child in a supermarket a week before she abducted him. And even though that is something I can prove happened with documents I have been assured that if I try to fight the case in the courts I will loose.

    Posted in: Most child abductions by Japanese women are a result of spousal violence.

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    passingtime

    my wife abducted my child 5 months ago. She told the police she was being abused. It was a load of crap. We had arguments. They were two sided.

    My wife is, I am afraid, insane.

    I know where they are but I cannot do a damn thing about the situation.

    All I can hope for is that she will cool down but the latest news is that she has now alienated half of her own family, the exact people that she went to for support.

    She still does not seem to be getting the hint that it is maybe not everyone else who is the problem here.

    But maybe it is starting to sink in a little.

    The thing about this that I think gets ignored in these discussions is that I would be just as screwed if I were Japanese.

    I think maybe the feeling of the authorities in Japanese courts is if we treat our own left behind spouses like shit why should these whiney foreigners expect any better?

    I have attended a Japanese hearing before.

    One of my Japanese friends got a year and a half prison sentence for having a joint on him. The sentence was stiff because it was his second offense.

    The courts here are nuts.

    Posted in: Most child abductions by Japanese women are a result of spousal violence.

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