"Richard Lawson" <sterman@uswest.net> wrote:

This is a new one on me.  Making it a hypothetical situation makes the
tense plural?

Only for "was." That's why "If I were you" is correct rather than "If I
was you," for example.

even if it does suffer from BE-style tunnel vision in that it
*only* considers Akane's violence toward Ranma. Other people
used to beat on Ranma too, including a certain bandanna boy.

Well, Akane's the issue here.  She wouldn't sit and think, "Oh, but it was
okay for me to hit Ranma because Ryoga and Ukyo and lots of other people
did it too."  Even Akane knows that multiple wrongs don't make a right.

No, but she might lash out at Ryoga at first, saying "Who the hell are
YOU to talk!" Just a suggestion.

Something I've never told anyone:  I wanted to name "Heart of the Home"
something else entirely:  "Kasumi's Story".  Alas, reading through the
archives revealed that there was already a fanfic with that name.  I
forget who wrote it now, but it contained a wonderful parody of the "bump
on the head" plot device.

Karl Rim. Yeah, that's a real classic.


Gary Kleppe
http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics