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Re:Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict by bemmu on Monday June 08, 2020 @12:31PM (#23458050)
Can confirm that "weird Japan" is the usual variety of story on the blog, but I posted this one after seeing it elsewhere and this article seemed to sum it up well.

In reality a teacher wouldn't dock you points for writing the alphabet in the wrong order? If so perhaps the post should be deleted.

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Re:Japanese rules for writing your ABCs are surprisingly strict by yutopia on Monday June 08, 2020 @01:57PM (#23458927)
Knowing the state of English education here I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if the story was true, especially seeing how the original blog post was written by a tutor in (rather rural) Fukui. I’ve never experienced anything like this myself, but some teachers truly are clueless.

However it’s quite a bit of a stretch to call these “Japanese rules for writing your ABCs”. The tweet wouldn’t have gotten 15k likes and retweets if this was a widespread occurrence or the standard way people are taught English here. It’s shocking and outrageous, that’s what made it viral.

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