Re: [Lingo] Usually Kanji in 国語 dictionary

[steve <sjs@example.com>]

On 11/09/2015 11:28 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Everything you need to know about kanji you learned in kindergarten
> (actually by 8th grade or so, but who's counting?) ;-)
>
> What I mean is that if you're Japanese, then basically you've absorbed
> (probably by osmosis) the fact that kanji you learn later than that
> are not Joyo kanji, and so newpapers and other sources that follow the
> Monkasho rules strictly won't print them as kanji.  There are a few
> other classes (animals, plants, sushi :-) where there's a rule that
> even even there is a Joyo kanji they're normally written as kana
> (though inu, neko, kome, and sakura are exceptions, and I'm sure there
> are plenty of others -- but native English speakers certainly should
> be used to the occasional exception in orthography!)
>
> So it really doesn't surprise me that Japanese don't even understand
> the question.  It's just YAGNI for them.
Hi Steve.  Thanks for the reply.  It was the first time I'd encountered 
the YAGNI acronym. Interesting.

So -- you're saying words using non-joyo kanji, animals, plants and 
sushi with exceptions (after all -- for us humans, nothing is ever 
simple) are all usually written in kana, right?

Steve S.