Was this actually written for April Fools' Day, or did it just seem 
appropriate to share now? I'm not sure how successful it is. Parodies 
can work any day of the year after all. April Fools' continuation 
chapters I think tend to work better...it's delivering something that's 
not what people expect that makes an April Fools' joke work best.

I don't think I can really give any helpful comments for this very 
bizarre fic. Parts of it were quite humorous. Middle-Aged Mutant Ninja 
Pandas...I got a laugh out of that. ^_^

Anyway I would like to help stamp out a too-common error:

On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 01:35  AM, Ginrai wrote:

Blinking, Ranma opened his mouth to reply, only to close it upon
realizing something. "You know, I have no clue. I mean, I first got my
given name, and the hero gig came much later... but the hero's been
prophesized for Pink One knows how long--"

The word is "prophesied" (from "prophesy"), not "prophesized." Yet I've 
heard this error in a few prominent places that rather surprised me. 
 From Morpheus's mouth in "The Matrix"...you'd think they'd catch this 
and do another shoot. The old guy in "Army of Darkness"...the dub for 
the Escaflowne series (don't remember which episode; the subtitle was 
spelled correctly). These are just the ones that stand out at the 
moment. I'm not sure that I've seen it in print before.

Linguistically I can think of a few possible contributing factors to why 
people are saying "prophesize," but the important thing as far as 
writing (and acting) goes is to recognize that it's an error and to 
avoid it.

Peter


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