XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: robkelk@deadspam.com   
      
   On 25 Oct 2005 17:56:42 -0700, "scott34494@yahoo.com"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >Rob Kelk wrote:   
   >   
   >> In the subgenre of comedy known as "bedroom farce",   
   >   
   >By golly!  You mean there's a french word for it?   
      
   There might be, but "farce" is an English word.   
      
      
      
   >Being a "farce" doesn't make Negima intelligent.  Being intelligent   
   >makes something intelligent.   
      
   You appear to be the only person trying to claim that "Negima!" is   
   intelligent.  Why are you so intent on ignoring the concerns raised by   
   others and setting up a strawman arguement instead?   
      
      
      
      
   >> Dialogue is not supposed to be re-written just because somebody wants to   
   >> show how "hip" he or she is.   
   >   
   >If that's what the adapter has been hired to do, than that's exactly   
   >what the adapter should do.   
      
   If that's what the adapter has been hired to do, then the adapter has   
   been hired to do the wrong job.   
      
   >And just because the smut has been rewritten doesn't make it insulting   
   >to our intelligence.  That requires the smut to be intelligent to begin   
   >with, I'd think.  And making new dialogue doesn't make the book dumber,   
   >just different.   
      
   Where did the word "smut" come from?  Nudity is not "smut".   
      
      
   >Negima's cute, but the word *intelligent* need not apply.   
      
   Which is why nobody but you has used that word so far.   
      
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   Rob Kelk     e-mail: s/deadspam/gmail/   
   "Hell, I've actually survived watching the Star Wars Holiday Special,   
    which makes ["Artemis' Lover"] look banal and tame by comparison."   
                         - Sea Wasp, in rec.arts.anime.misc, 3 January 2005   
      
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