Re: English - Japanese Electronic Dictionary

From: Travers Naran (tnaran_at_no-more-virii-please.direct.ca)
Date: 09/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 04:47:26 GMT

necoandjeff wrote:
>
> How good is your Japanese? I would highly suggest getting one with a kokugo
> jiten (like Kojien) as well. Not only will it have a lot of words that for
> some reason never seem to make their way into waei jitens, but as I've
> harped on many times, looking up words in Japanese only dictionaries is a
> highly recommended supplement (if not a complete substitute) to looking up
> words in waei dictionaries.

*grrr* I hate saying this but.... Jeff is right.

One of the manga I'm reading (aimed at College students) has so many
obscure words that the J-E has no entry for it, but the J-J always did.
Mercifully, the model I own has a push-n-pop jump-return feature so it's
easy to jump from a word in the J-J definition to the J-E part. Also, this
particular manga-ka is a kanji freak and uses some of alternate kanji
compounds for common words. The kind of kanji the J-E did not have, but
the J-J did.

You also lose your discomfort with dealing with "hard-core" written
Japanese so you no longer freak out when you see mostly words you don't know.

BTW, my favorite J-J definition from my WORDTANK:

落花流水: 散る花と流れる水。

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