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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (36290)	7/19/2003 5:16:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

KC, Evil has too much of a religious wacko edge to it for my liking. Malevolent is more accurately descriptive and not calling on higher powers. I like to use evil sparingly. Disparate is more completely unconnected than different. So as you say, it's a similar meaning, but more of it. English if full of thousands of words with many subtleties of meaning. I don't subscribe to the universal grunt, where any word can cover everything and only about 20 words describe all of human existence [I think it's only 10 words in some gangsta-rap and "muddafudda" covers most things]. Mq