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======= Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 13:02:58 +1000 (EST)
(subtype)	amend
(headw1)	不断
(kana1)	ふだん
(pos1)	n
(comment)	1) 不断 【ふだん】 (adj-na,adj-no,n-adv,n-t) constant; persistent; unremitting; continually; constantly
2) 不断着; 普段着(P) 【ふだんぎ】 (n) casual wear; ordinary clothes; everyday clothes; home wear
Question: May I know why 不断 is not given the P marker in 
ふだんぎ but 普段 is in 普段着?
BTW, I only know 普段の場合 as well as other uses of 普段 within phrases. 
FWI, upon returning to Japan after a 25-year hiatus, I noticed that the young Japanese are borderline illiterate with regard to their knowledge of Kanji, all that shockingly noticed at Kyoto University where my Chinese graduate school friends where as aghast as I at the ignorance of the young people in Japan. Many times I would ask the Kyo-Dai students if the Kanji in one word was the same as in this word -- and they did not know!
(name)	Dennis
======= Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:13:21 +1000 (EST)
(subtype)	new
(headw1)	正義の剣
(kana1)	せいぎのけん
(pos1)	n
(english1)	light sabre/saber (from the Star Wars films) (trans: sword of justice)
(name)	Todd Faulkner