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A little while ago I bought an electronic dictionary to use during all those clueless moments in Japanese class. I ended up buying the Sharp PW-9910 at Bic’s Camera in Nagoya for ¥23,800 because the processor was faster than other models with comparable features. (If you’re looking to buy, by the way, I recommend reading the very informative Japanese-English-Japanese Electronic Dictionaries website.)

Most electronic dictionaries these days keep lists of recently accessed entries. I rarely use these lists, but the other day I took at look. There, stored in my dictionary, was a snapshot of numerous conversations I’ve had over the past couple months, packaged and presented in one big block. Since these terms are lookups into the English-Japanese dictionary, most of them originated in my brain during the course of conversations. Presented out of context and in an amalgamated form…geeze, what was I thinking? Without context, our daily lives make no sense.

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