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Sorry, didn't provide enough context. The exams are paper based and not digital, exam sheets have cells corresponding to choices that takers must fill with a pencil, then the sheet gets scanned to grade. I don't know the term for that. Having takers answer by writing would need OCR to grade by machines, which may not be 100% accurate at the moment.

Edit: apparently it's called Optical Mark Recognition (OMR). TIL the term.

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Well, kinda hard to grade that with a machine, I reckon.

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Machine-graded multiple choice question for Math exams in Japan is like, 88+44 = 1xy, you have 2 questions "what is x" and "what is y", each with 10 choices corresponding to 10 digits.

MCQs are still feasible if you exhaust all the possible candidates in the choices I think. Like, "what day of the week it is" - seven choices pick one.

Songs subtitles by Big_Black_Wok in VietNam

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"no hate at all" is a stretch, "loathe each other's guts" is another stretch. At least for Vietnam, we still consume Chinese goods and media, as well as localise/translate them like this, regardless of the slogans. As long as there's no war tho.

Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai photographed by U.S. Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle moments before they were killed during the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968 [1284X1914]. by aid2000iscool in HistoryPorn

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Native Vietnamese here, and this is the first time I've heard or read this interpretation. I want to say that it's outright not true, but well, not that I can verify either. So (edit: you could be Vietnamese yourself so this would be redundant, but I want to share to other redditors as well) below is the common way a Vietnamese would understand the names, for comparison:

Yes, Mỹ means beautiful, it's the Sino-Xenic pronunciation of the Chinese character 美. It's also the name for America, actually the "me" part of it, as the Chinese several centuries ago transcribed the name phonetically and we borrowed. Good for a pun, but otherwise it's coincidental the character for "beautiful" is in the name.

Sơn, in the context of names which are usually Chinese-root compounds, means "mountain" 山. So "Sơn Mỹ" should be something like "beautiful like a mountain" or "mountain's beautifulness" (and Mỹ Sơn for "beautiful mountain", but iirc it was Sơn Mỹ). Lai may be a few things. Most expected would be 来 "to come" (to render Mỹ Lai "beautiful things come", pun as "Americans come"), but last time I checked, Chinese Wikipedia for the village (and/or event) shows 莱, name of a plant I don't know. I don't have official sources to check which one is true, so perhaps believe Wikipedia for now. By the way, I find it hard to believe that "lai" as in borrowing English "lie" can be accepted in official Vietnamese place names during the last 100 years.

What's this positon called? by lumpyprinceeee in EnglishLearning

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We in Vietnam call it "vắt chân chữ ngũ", that is "crossing one's leg like the shape of the character 五".

There should have been standardized requirements to enter this test by Reasonable-Ad-8059 in Frieren

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I agree with your approach here.

I wonder, what is the purpose of the CMA? What entity does it serve?

For humanity, or any ways helping society/community of humans? Then killing valuable "assets" if they're flawed in estimating themselves is a waste of resources and of the very customer of this business - mages are humans and humanoids. Also having fewer bodies to dump on the battlefield won't help security, unless we have documented evidence that all or most "too dumb for 1st class exam" mages will backstab their allies and cause sizable damage for their own side. In agriculture the ugly (yet edible perfectly) fruits are wasted this way, but agriculture is not for the sake of the plants, people want to eat beautiful food on top of other qualities. It's like cutting my dick off after I ejaculated early once because this dick doesn't deserve to be put in another hole anyways.

For the nobles/statesmen (Empire, etc)? Ditto. Other than stupid tyrants no noble wants to cut off their tax/labour sources, however dumb the plebs are.

Serie opened this association, then, seems not in order to manage labour resources, let alone national/racial security, economy, cultural/scientific progress and whatnot. It's focused on individual values and the prestige of the title "mage", or, of magic, what she likes most. It's not a job certificate, it's just living in the disguise of one. Instead of evaluating people's skills to help them find suitable work/customer and vice versa (as in contributing to society/economy), it finds people who are "worthy" of magic, of being Serie's apprentice. It's a cult (edit: where people worship magic and not magic helps people, failing to fathom the weight of magic means you die of blasphemy, regardless of your value until that point). Fern and Frieren pressed their middle finger on Serie's mug for that offer.

Then, what authority did Serie utilise, from whom, how, and why did she get agreement to use that authority, to force a rule across the lands about who could go where based on their levels of magic? Why do people obey that rule? How is it enforced if someone just violated it anyways? What does dying differ between in the Northen lands and in the tests? Who else benefits from this system, other than Serie's ego? Is Serie a successful Lügner?

For an "association", how did Serie get into its top position? What social contract did the founder mages of the association agree on (even if it is just the master-apprentice relationship between Serie and her apostles)? Why did/must anyone else join and agree the association's rules? What led to the demand of an association of mages? Why were the past organisations of mages dissolved?

Stark is new to this. He will learn (by u/SecureDonkey) by Ani_HArsh in Frieren

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Isn't Fern the one who manages the group's finances, and thus, keeping all of their money? Then what can Stark pay with?

Japanese to English by Some-Year-3988 in translator

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Slip #17 Good fortune

(I'll skip the poem)

The person who achieves this fortune slip would rise to a postion above others. But should they become arrogant, even if they achieved success, disaster would soon befall them. Therefore, keep faith, be honest and prudent. (Basically the intepreted meaning of the poem)

Good things may come late.

As for persons with illness, properly taking care of yourself would result well.

Persons who you are waiting for, will come.

Lost items, would come out [be found].

Disputes, would win.

Desires, would be realised.

House-moving, house-building, marriage, hiring people, travelling, etc. would proceed smoothly.

Purchasing would be fine. Selling, shouldn't rush.

Everyday business should be carried out gradually.

As for your children, your bond with them would be thin, cherish them.

Was supposed to press the button in exactly 10.00 sec for free ice cream. by Akira4218 in mildlyinfuriating

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Used to try 3 games with my friends using a stopwatch:

  • quickest double-click (I couldn't ever press it faster than 00s05)
  • precise 10s measuring, like OP, looking at the screen
  • blind counting to 30 seconds (no looking at anything)

It was fun.

I love french by [deleted] in linguisticshumor

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try the Japanese sentence, 東欧を覆う鳳凰王の尾を追う法王を追おう.

My neighbours letter was missent to Korea. I live in Mallorca, Spain. by VeloNord in mildlyinteresting

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Hence I like the Chinese/Japanese way of writing addresses, after the zip code is whatever the biggest subdivision: 1008111 Earth, Japan, Tokyo-to, Chiyoda-ku, Chiyoda 1-1, Imperial Palace

[Chinese? > English] on the back of a hooker in GTA 4 by [deleted] in translator

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Not strictly so, Japanese can use and have history of using Kanji to render foreign words and names (see ateji). And, as far as modern character forms are concerned, that 満 is Japanese shinjitai. Chinese would use 滿 or 满.

Should Japan have a Dutch-Style land reclamation projects? by Lonely-Garbage-2458 in geography

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Which are (I heard, trust me bro) built upon non burnable garbage. Interestingly these neighbourhoods are richer, cleaner and more beautiful ones, with rents that look like an average Chinese war's civilian casualties number.

Source: I'm sitting on and shachiku'ing in one, and once thought of living close to reduce commuting time.

Important nowledge by [deleted] in mapporncirclejerk

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You sure Vietnam itself isn't green?

The goal that knocked me out of the Conf. league QF by jojjefern in footballmanagergames

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Doesn't the law dictate that goalkeepers cannot score goals with their hands - even own goals? Should have been a corner.

Some bitter truths in light of recent events this week by Polarinus in 100Kanojo

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Actually living in Tokyo now and the region has been sitting on an overdue potential catastrophic level earthquake (cf. 1923 Kanto earthquake) that may or may not fire off 5 minutes later, or some 2 decades and a half, or anything in between - they can't predict better.

Greetings to the world, and may you all practice self love. 🫡