Thomas Schauer wrote:

Raymund Lirag <lirag@mail.irf.ph.net> 05/07/97 09:51am >>>

       Why does Akane keep saying Ranma no Baka when everybody
(including
Akane) can see that Ranma is not a cow, although he is rather strange
for a human?

Do you know, I cannot imagine what the purpose of this post was.  What
do cows have anything to do with it?  (maybe he's referring to one of the
characters of "baka", but the character in question is for horse, not
cow...)

No es dificil en espanol... I mean in Spanish "baca" means cow. It was
funny enough in High school to hava Mrs. Baca (cow jokes until the cows
came home <C-chan ducks to avoid flying objects>) as a teacher, but when
a Japanese friend of mine told me about "baka",,, Oh man! So, Akane's
favorite epithet has an interesting fouble message for us Spanish
speakers.

I suspect the post was a result of just noticing this amusing false
cognate (Gee, I've been waiting years for a chance to use that in normal
(so to speak) conversation ^_~), or boredom, or both.

C-chan