>From Travis Butler

From:        yinyang, yinyang@altered.com

went on. She ended by jumping up, her fists clenched at her
sides, shouting up at the ceiling, "RANMA NO BAKA!"
    Now, this paragraph was near the half way point in the fic.
That last word, "Ranma no Baka" killed the mood.  Never do this
again.  Fortunately, you stopped the baka usage after this point.
Fics like this should never used cliched Japanese phrases.

I have to disagree, here. Cliched, maybe... but it *is* the phrase that
Akane uses all the time in the subtitled releases. (Can't speak for the
original Japanese-language manga, since I can't read Japanese, but I have
learned enough spoken Japanese to recognize that phrase. ^_^) I thought
it was the perfect capper to that speech, and perfectly in character. The
original Japanese phrase also has a certain punch that none of the
translations I've seen can match.

Zen can read the manga.  The only manga characters Zen has ever seen that
use the term Baka *more* that Akane are Mian Toris and Wataru, from Caravan
Kidd.

She says it ALOT in print too! ^_^

(Which, as it happens, is a good thing.  Otherwise Zen would be in trouble
when *his* fic hits the ML...)

Zen-