Friday, July 27, 2012
Preface of sptt Native Japanese Dictionary (やまとことばじてん)
This dictionary "sptt Native Japanese Dictionary (sptt やまとことばじてん)" is for those, either Japanese or non-Japanese, who are interested in the Japanese language. This dictionary differs from other Japanese-English and English-Japanese dictionaries in that
1) this will be very tiny due to the limited time of the editor (sptt);
2) not in alphabetical order - at least this first edition;
3) despite the title name "Native Japanese Dictionary ”, the order of entries are either English --> native Japanese or native Japanese --> English.
4) as the title name "sptt Native Japanese Dictionary (sptt やまとことばじてん)" shows it uses native Japanese words as much as possible and Chinese origin and English (and some other European language) origin Japanese words as little as possible;
5) because of 4) Japanese are written in "Hiaragana" with occasional uses of Chinese characters and "Katakana" (which is usually used for European origin words) when necessary;
6) explanations on Grammars (both English and Japanese) are emphasized because of its nature of a part of sptt Notes on Grammar;
7) may never end.
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