Warning.  Spoilers for "Tsubasa Kurenai" appear in this message.
(Not that it's any big secret.)

Bert Miller wrote:

David Eddy wrote

I just thought I'd point out in the interest of versimilitude that the
word for angel (as in winged-messenger-from-heaven-etc.) is
"tenshi", whereas the word use in Evangelion to describe the
enemy creatures is "shito", pronounced "shto", which means
"disciple".

This brings up a problem I note every once in a while, even in otherwise
excellent
fics.  For instance (to use a *very* illustrious example), Richard Lawson's
"The Nature of Love", which contains the line:

And Kentaro began, for the first time, to doubt the personal pronouns he

used

when referring to Ranma.

Now I'm far from conversant in Nihongo myself, but I know enough so that
lines like
the above abruptly jar me out of my 'willing suspension of disbelief'.  You
 can't
write in English without using sex-indicative personal pronouns (I've
tried, briefly),
but you *can* avoid making plot points or epiphanic moments around them.

Is true.  In fact the Tsubasa storyline revolves around the fact that 
even though Ukyo knows perfectly well that Tsubasa is a boy and Tsubasa 
knows perfectly well that Ukyo is a girl, this isn't obvious to others 
because in the language they are speaking, you don't use "him" or "her".
Even Ukyo doesn't realise that Tsubasa knows she's a girl, because even 
when speaking to others about her, he isn't using gender-based second 
person.  He just calls her "Ukyo-"

Enough of that.  I'd like to see more fanfics making jokes with the
Japanese language.
Here's an example, an idea I thought of, but rejected, for "A Comedy of
Errors":

Ukyou:    Why do you always refer to yourself by name in the first person,
Shampoo?

Shampoo:  Shampoo not born in Japan.  Not have first person pronoun
assigned to her at birth.

R/A/U:    Huh?  What do you mean?

Shampoo:  Japanese people all use different pronouns.  Akane use 'atashi';
Ranma use 'boku';
          spatula girl use 'ore'.  Obviously assigned at birth.  Shampoo
not have one; have
          to use name.

Ranma, Akane, and Ukyou scratch their heads, trying to decide how to
explain to Shampoo how
to decide which word to use for 'I'.  Unfortunately, none of them have
degrees in "Teaching
Japanese as a Foreign Language."

Of course that wouldn't work because in Japanese, Shampoo probably 
doesn't call herself "Shampoo".  Although I notice C-Ko does call 
herself "C-Ko".  Just one of her many loathesome kawaii-isms.