• CalipherJones@lemmy.world
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      58 minutes ago

      Lots of old people in Japan. When I went I found an entire floor of a department store dedicated to brand new fax machines.

      • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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        37 minutes ago

        Which is probably why they do still sell these dictionaries, just not nearly as many as they used to.

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      8 hours ago

      I still own an electronic Japanese dictionary but haven’t used it in about 10 years. I have a dictionary app on my phone that I use nearly every day.

      About the only thing the electronic version still does better than any of the apps I’ve tried, surprisingly, is handwritten kanji recognition, I think perhaps because it comes with a little stylus that makes it more precise.