On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, P-R-P-Chan wrote:

well at least you leave it open that they're are some Qu�beqois (i can't

	Quebecois.  (Male, accents left off.)

even remember to spell that...) who can't understand french properly..
frankly I'm asshamed at how bad my french is.. I've lived in Qu�bec all my
life and half my family has french as their 'langue maternel' .... and for

	anyways i do have a point to this..  I was wondering if anyone knew where
i could find some french language Ranma fics, I'd been looking for them
briefly last year, but never got anywhere, all i ever found was some DB...
so if anyone has nay could you send them along to me? thnks

	Dunno about fics.  French manga translations (and anime) are a
hell of a lot better than their english counterparts, though.  The French
(from France, not Quebec) just seem to have an innate better appreciation
of the style (Fifth Element was a good example of this in live-action
format). Heck, their Albator and Goldorak and Capitaine Flamme were
childhood staples, way before I knew what anime was. 
	I've seen some of their SM, too: far more accurate in the
translation, no scenes cut out (I believe), humour kept relatively intact,
no episodes arbitrarily eliminated -- ie, no DIC.
	Manga's easy to find -- just check the French section of Chapters
(if yours has one...).  I read most of DB in French -- although, really,
does the language matter (considering most of it was BOOM and SLAM and
variants of 'I'm not down yet!', 'Impossible!', and 'This should prove an
interesting test of my abilities, heh.'
 
	And on this question of languages -- is it written in the FAQ
somewhere that the ML is english-only?  Obviously having the FFML turn
into another babel would be bad, but I really can't understand getting
upset over a single other-language response.

	-Mike Noakes
	(who is of French-Canadian decent -- well, on one side, anyway.)