From:        Richard Lawson, sterman@sprynet.com

Sebastian Weinberg writes:

The view fades in on a large room...

Ooh!  Ooh!  It's been my life-long dream to have someone do 
one of these to my fics!  Thank you!  

I'm probably going to put it up on the FFC page, if Sebastian doesn't 
mind... Sebastian? :)

BTW, if anyone else has "fun" fanfic critiques that they'd like to see go 
up on the page, let me know...

: Ranma drew in a breath. "Shampoo! Mousse! Form a triangle. We'll
: keep our backs to each other. Don't let them draw you away. If
: they surround you, you're done for. Wait for them to attack.
: You're each responsible for an arc of 120 degrees, which is about
: your field of vision looking straight ahead. Don't go for an enemy
: outside your arc, you'll just leave yourself open elsewhere. We
: gotta trust each other. Don't hold back; these folks are already
: dead."

Sebastian:  Ah, I dunno.  Ranma isn't stupid, just not very well
     educated.  I'm sure he could come up with this plan, but he
     wouldn't use this vocabulary - talking about arcs and
     degrees.  I guess he wouldn't know how many degrees a third
     of a full circle is, anyway.

Here I have to disagree with you, Sebastian.  Anyone who's made it
as far as their junior year in high school will know that a circle
has 360 degrees.  I also think it's highly applicable to martial
arts (notice that I said "I think"; not being a practioner, I don't
know for sure).  So having Ranma know about arcs and degrees isn't
too much out of character, IMO.

I'd have to agree with Sebastian. Ranma might *know* about a circle being 
360 degrees, but he's more likely to *use* terms like "third of a 
circle," i.e. "You've each gotta cover a third of the circle, about the 
area you can see lookin' straight ahead. Don't go for an enemy outside 
your part of the circle, you're just gonna leave yourself open somewhere 
else."



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