Strained Harmony ch5

[Sunshine Temple]

Heh.

Thanks! Hopefully it won't take *too* long to catchup ;p

[Té Rowan]

Did anyone catch that instance of 'wiring noise' from Hotaru's camera? Woulda thought the wiring loom was fixed well enough to avoid noises.

... it was made by some German company and supposedly built to last. The name was gibberish to Akane, too many F’s, ...

Built to last, indeed. I think Mum's machine lasted for at least forty years.

[Sunshine Temple]

Té Rowan
Did anyone catch that instance of 'wiring noise' from Hotaru's camera? Woulda thought the wiring loom was fixed well enough to avoid noises.

[Ahhh, guess that should be whirring.

[Whoopsie. I'll correct that.

... it was made by some German company and supposedly built to last. The name was gibberish to Akane, too many F’s, ...

Built to last, indeed. I think Mum's machine lasted for at least forty years.

[Woo! Glad someone got the Pfaff reference. They really are very sturdy machines.

[Thanks for the comments!

[kitten]

[Woo! Glad someone got the Pfaff reference. They really are very sturdy machines.

Singers too, if yours was made before they switched to plastic parts. 1964, I believe. I have one that belonged to my mother, and her mother before her. If I ever have children it probably has at least another generation in it.

[Sunshine Temple]

kitten

[Woo! Glad someone got the Pfaff reference. They really are very sturdy machines.

Singers too, if yours was made before they switched to plastic parts. 1964, I believe. I have one that belonged to my mother, and her mother before her. If I ever have children it probably has at least another generation in it.

[I've heard a bit of that longevity. Though I went with Pfaff, because of way Akange would boggle at the nonsense word.

[kitten]

An article I read on vintage sewing machines said that it's mostly because these days we can calculate the precise strain each part will be under and know how sturdy to make the parts for them to last the projected lifecycle of the product. Back then, they didn't know at all and just made things as sturdy as possible to be safe. Of course, there's also the fact that the vintage sewing machines are also much simpler mechanically, so if it breaks down it's a lot easier to get it back on its feet. A new Bernina, while a wonderful machine, is not something the layperson can fix at home.

[Cheb]

The name was gibberish to Akane, too many F's,

Pfaff

I strongly doubt that. Granted, the Japanese language is allergic to several consonants in a row. But! It also widely uses *doubling* consonants natively, to the point that Akane probably wouldn't have trouble reading this "pufaffu" (プファッフ). There is a special character (a smaller, lowered "tsu") that means "the consonant of the next phonem is doubled". Ex.: kakkoi (かっこい)

[kitten]

The doubled consonant is how the missionaries who invented romaji decided to transliterate the small tsu sound. It is actually pronounced as a slight pause in the word.

[Sunshine Temple]

Maybe something like this:

Apparently, it was made by some German company and supposedly built to last. From what she knew of foreign languages the name was gibberish to Akane, but that was limited to English. Maybe the Germans loved words with too many F's, but either way Kasumi had loved it.

[Ellen Kuhfeld]

Apparently, it was made by some German company and supposedly built to last. From what she knew of foreign languages the name was gibberish to Akane, but that was limited to English. Maybe the Germans loved words with too many F's, but either way Kasumi had loved it.

Avoid using the same (or similar) word twice in a sentence if possible. It's a hard one to catch sometimes. I'd rewrite as:

The label was gibberish to Akane -- too many Fs -- but it looked German, and the machine obviously was built to last. Kasumi had loved it.

[Sunshine Temple]

Avoid using the same (or similar) word twice in a sentence if possible. It's a hard one to catch sometimes. I'd rewrite as:

The label was gibberish to Akane -- too many Fs -- but it looked German, and the machine obviously was built to last. Kasumi had loved it.

Thanks! That's much cleaner and has a lot more brevity to it!

[Cheb]

> were we are

> Ranma put the rest of her markup away

> room that cook up the bulk

> "It's as obvious as you eying Michiru," Michiru teased.

The redhead gasped. "How did..."
"Because Setsuna's jealousy was palatable

Yay My pairing-sense is tingling

she leaned in and kissed the curvy redhead.

didn't want to stand aside anymore.

U make me sad ...

> r left hand. What you didn't ge
missing "

"At least her uniform's not like that anymore. Too plain."

Drats, I'm running out of... endurance... Eyes closing... Can't finish today... So wanted to... Zzzzzz...

[Sunshine Temple]

Cheb
> were we are

> Ranma put the rest of her markup away

> room that cook up the bulk

> "It's as obvious as you eying Michiru," Michiru teased.

[Got 'em

The redhead gasped. "How did..."
"Because Setsuna's jealousy was palatable

Yay My pairing-sense is tingling

[Oh? ;p

she leaned in and kissed the curvy redhead.

[^_^

didn't want to stand aside anymore.

U make me sad ...

[Oh? Why?

> r left hand. What you didn't ge
missing "

[got it.

"At least her uniform's not like that anymore. Too plain."

Drats, I'm running out of... endurance... Eyes closing... Can't finish today... So wanted to... Zzzzzz...

[Awww, you're almost at the end ;p

[thanks for the comments! I think you'll really like the end

[Té Rowan]

A small bit of present tense just as Setsuna and Ranma arrive at Green Mountain, but what I really want is to see Hotaru's photos of Ranma.

[Sunshine Temple]

Té Rowan
A small bit of present tense just as Setsuna and Ranma arrive at Green Mountain, but what I really want is to see Hotaru's photos of Ranma.

[Can you narrow it down a bit?

[Also do you mean described in text or as fanart?