Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma/Goldenboy/Love Hina] Diamonds in the Rough: Chapter two
From: Bob Schroeck
Date: 6/17/2002, 9:09 PM
To: Fanfic Mailing List


The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:
         The kendoka, uncaring, charged through the smoke towards
Ranma, sword in a ready position. "I will strike you down, fell
minion of perversion!" she declared.
I think you wanted "foul" minion of perversion there.

No, "fell" is proper -- from Webster's Ninth Collegiate Diction Dictionary,
meaning 4:  1 a: FIERCE, CRUEL, TERRIBLE  b: SINISTER, MALEVOLENT 

It's related to the word "felon", through the Old French word "fel".

-- Bob

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