Re: [tlug] [OT] What's up with online Japanese<->Japanese dictionaries? [SOLVED]

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Jim, Nguyen,

Thanks for responding. Thanks, Jim, for explaining the state of Japanese 
dictionaries.
It's too bad that there aren't official online versions of some of the 
larger dictionaries.
Nguyen said:

> ... for a gaijin like us, do we *REALLY* need it if we have no idea on 
> what context it should be used?
I'm not sure if this statement was tongue-in-cheek or not. It makes some 
very strange assumptions. I think the most strange being the broad 
assumption that there is such a thing as "gaijin like us", who have a 
collectively unified set of circumstances in which we will or won't 
understand the context of a word.
In any case, I'm not looking to learn how to translate Japanese. I'm 
looking to live in Japanese. With that goal in mind, how E<->J 
dictionaries serve as facilitators for translation is not that important 
to me. What is important to me is a J<->J dictionary that doesn't leave 
me wanting for definitions so that I can learn Japanese in the context 
of Japanese.
Anyway, thanks everyone for the tips. I at least know what I'm up 
against now.
--
Dave M G