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Useful English-Japanese Handheld Dictionaries?
srothroc asks: "I've been interested in finding one of these, but I'm not too sure where to start looking. I've been around the block talking to students and my professor - most people either don't need one for some reason or the other or only use paper dictionaries. Online searches have been fruitless as well, so I turn to you, Slashdot. The ideal dictionary would be able to take hiragana/katakana input and give output in English, hiragana, katakana, and/or kanji. A lot of the ones that I've seen take English (romaji) input and spit out the same - not something I'd need. I would prefer options that wouldn't bust my wallet, as Christmas season is coming around. Any ideas, folks?"
Yep, I have a Japanese linguistics degree, lived and worked in Japan, blah blah blah. Let me know which jiten you worked on so I can avoid it.
ROTFL!!! You translated a picture book about beer! I bet that was a whole lot of work.
Face it, you're an old Japan burnout that sneers at everyone who arrived in Japan one day after you and calls them "fresh off the boat." You've "gone native" and try to out-Japanese the Japanese, declaring yourself an authority over the judgement of native Japanese PhD linguists I cited. I've seen a hundred old burnouts like you. I used to pity them, now I just avoid them.