Re: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar. Was:Newbie stuff: I hope to learn

necoandjeff wrote:
> jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Soren Svendsen <immacolata2@xxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
>>
>>>I just found it in a local net book store for 60$ new. However it
>>>seems that it is printed with romaji entries and ordered
>>>alphabetically instead of in japanese syllabary style a-ka-sa-ta
>>>etc. I gathered that from a review I read on Amazon. Is that as
>>>bothersome as it sounds to me?
>>
>>It is annoying, but I coped with it. The good news is that the
>>successor "Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar" has kana
>>instead of romaji, but it's still in (romaji) alphabetical order.
>
>
> That's even more bizarre...what could possibly be the point in alphabetizing
> it in that way? I mean if you can read hiragana presumably you know their
> proper order.

Sometimes I use my mobile phone to write a series of emails in quick
succession, some in Japanese and some in English. It is amazing how
easy it is to slip my mind into a "romaji nyuuryoku" type of mode for
the Japanese emails and start entering total gibberish into my phone.

Other times, such as when browsing a record store, I forget the
a ka sa order of hiragana, especially near the bottom of the chart, and
I look at my phone to help me out.

--
Curt Fischer

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