Ranma took it from him and unrolled it. After a few moments >of trying to read it and then figuring that he didn't know Chinese as >well as he thought he did, he passed it back to the man. "I can't read >Chinese. What's it say?"

    The man blinked in surprise for a moment. "It not Chinese, >sir. This scroll over two thousand year old, but I know it >about >Jusenkyo. Man who give it to me say so. Say only to sell to one with >curse, and no other."

    "Well, whatever language it is, I can't read it."
    The old chinese man shook his head. "I no can read it >either, sir. It is... ara... araman.. no, that not right..." He reached over >and pulled out a small dictionary. After the flip of a few pages, he >located the word he was looking for and looked towards Ranma.
    "It Aramaic, sir."

Major nit here. Even someone of Ranma's vaunted intelligence would not be able to mistake chinese for aramaic. Aramaic has 30 symbol (give or take) sylabic alphabet. Ranma would be more likely to mistake it for greek or hebrew.
                                         Bill Morse
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