Academic papers are supposed to be quite impersonal in their style, but i agree em and i think it's not as alway, you're getting your point across. It's too bad to include little bits of colloquial language, like even just yes or no. I guess that's the issue. Er, it's a bit of a weird transition from talking about you, talking about you or your work, your studies and stuff, to then talking about your father. He was a college graduate in the 19 eighties in china, which was kind of rare. So he played second fiddle there, second fiddl he playedSecond fiddle. And so let's