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

Louise Bremner wrote:
> necoandjeff <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Depends what you mean by "proper order".... I used to work with some
> older guys who couldn't get the hang of the new-fangled a-ka-sa-ta
> order, since they'd grown up with i-ro-ha. They each had a little
> crib-*** they'd use when looking up entries in modern dictionaries.

I knew someone would bring up iroha...
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