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2020-07-29 "A Little Bit of Gospel" [長年日記]

The conference secretariat has adopted my conference paper and I am now preparing materials for the conference presentation.

If you are presenting at a conventional conference, you usually go to the venue where the conference is held, take the stage, and present your work.

However, due to the corona disaster, most of the presentations at the conference are now all "video images + web exhibition".

In other words,

The concept of a conference hall is eliminated, and there is no need to speak at the conference. Naturally, you won't have to worry about making a mistake in your presentation.

No more real time spoken English question and answer sessions. The alternative is to write on a bulletin board (text).

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"How marvelous this is!"

I think that.

That's what I'm advocating in this column.

First principle: don't "have" a topic that would require discussion in English.

Second principle: don't "create" a topic that would require discussion in English.

Third principle: "Don't let them bring in" topics that would require discussion in English.

It is the realization of a world where none of this is necessary.

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If the corona disaster continues indefinitely -- for our country, which has a large population of "Engineer not loved by English", this might be,

"A Little Bit of Gospel"