Entropy's comment--including your version of it in your example--makes absolutely perfect sense to everyone on the forum but you. If I ask if road A can take me to point B, and someone chimes in and says that road C is better, that's usually considered helpful advice that everybody understands.
Now, it could be argued that your question was actually different--if you say, "I'm going to take road A, whether you like it or not; do you think I might end up at point B?" then it would not make as much sense to recommend road C. But it would still make more sense that you're allowing it to make.
Frankly, I'd like to say that a Jane Austen RPG would be killer, with or without martial arts. I'd also like to say that the Feng Shui stunt system, the way I understand it, could be very easily adapted to a "witty comment" system rather than an action system, and since most conversations in Jane Austen are essentially verbal combats, it would translate well. And I don't think the lack of character development would matter much, since most Austen characters are remarkably static (unless the character progression was "falling in love") as opposed to "becoming more powerful").
