be more accurate to translate it as "Spring of Drowned Female", because
"SoD Girl" confuses people and mistakingly leads them to believe that
the female Ranma is set at a "young girl" age ... (Same thing goes
for "Spring of Drowned Piglet" ... should be "Spring of Drowned Little
Black Pig" ... because I think that P-chan is a certain type of pig
that is always small. He most certainly is not a piglet!)

I beg to differ, but there's one problem with this argument:

I looked up the words for both the meaning of "niang" and the Chinese for
piglet.

It turns out that in Chinese, "niang" literally means "young woman", and in
coloquial American diologue (not sure about Aussie dialogue), females under
age twenty (or more) are sometimes called "girls."

Well, that's what I was told by someone on one of the MLs a little while
back ... or was it on raa*? But I looked up the meaning in Japanese, and
it says "daughter".

Maybe it depends on how you read the Chinese? Did you look up the Mandarin
or Cantonese? (And, well, 'niang' doesn't look much like 'nyan' to me,
but then, I can't read Chinese to save my life. :p )

In Chinese, the word for piglet literally means "little pig" [xiaozhu].

Well, P-chan is a little pig. But not a piglet. :p

Kun-chan...
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