On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, White Wolf wrote:

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Emperor Stephen The Mega Man Schlueter wrote:

I recently got ticked off at the spelling and grammar C&Cs I was 
getting. Speaking of spelling what's with the extra "u"s in Ranma 1/2 
fics? Ryouga, Ukyou, Tendou. These all have extra "u"s in them. Where 
are they coming from?!! 

Someone protect this poor child from Caroline before she kills him.

[old man hobbles into view] Ok!  Ok...  Listen sonney, it works this 
way...theres Japanese and theres English.  They don't even have a similar 
character set.  Ya with this so far?  Good.  Since they ain't the same, 
theres a couple of ways to transelate it.  I'll give an example of two:
   Theres the map the English character(s) to Japanese character method.  
      That gets ya names like Ryouga...
   Then theres the, yer a stupid american so we ain't bother'n with trying 
      to give ya an accurate spelling method.  Thats where ya write it like 
      it will be (miss)pronounced.  Ryoga.
Ya still with me?  Good, then ya know what ya need to.  Yer a victom 
of a conspiracy...Now its just fair to say it ain't his fault...he was 
probably exposed to Viz translations at a tender age.  
[Old man wanders away]

Matthew Trotter, just another victom of Viz poisoning...