Snapshot of two months’ conversations
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.
(chronologically left to right, top to bottom)
| join | hobby | philosophy |
| factory | pause | symmetry |
| obvious | carpe diem | otter |
| pester | flirt | flirtatious |
| greedy | supplicant | suppliant |
| copy | reciprocate | box |
| postcode | garbage dump | moth |
| effort | venereal | race |
| adoption | lead | floor |
| hill | metabolism | concentrate |
| Mafia | hell | website |
| download | Internet Relay Chat | bulk buying |
| eventually | disappoint | trailer |
| slacker | attendance | penitent |
| damnation | rebuke | charm |
| tomb | common sense | party |
| North Korea | empathy | empathize |
| support | obligation | fool’s errand |
| status | humbleness | humble |
| serious | Antarctica | optimist |
| pessimistic | pitiful | pianist |
| simple | deposit | table |
| museum | summit | shortcut |
| World Trade Center | contract | dawn |
| happiness | spy | gun |
| limit | availability | source code |
| whiner | pun | prop |
| guarantor | impressive | leader |
| role model | artist | goal |
| fallout |
April 4th, 2005 at 2:06 pm
Never one to be penitent, he ignored the pitiful rebuke and sent the otter on another fool’s errand to hell. Simple common sense. The gun
was safe in the tomb, the slacker artist was stuck in pessimistic empathy with a flirtatious moth, and the serious philosophy would wait until dawn.
The obvious goal was a shortcut to happiness, damnation without limit for a whiner, but everyone in attendance at this particular party would catch
the fallout eventually anyway.
April 5th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
Brilliant
June 5th, 2005 at 11:24 pm
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