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== -MAL what is MAL? Just a prefix? ==
== -MAL what is MAL? Just a prefix? ==


Clearly the MAL in Malamar can more easily be related to such words as Malignant, Maleficent, Malicious. So many words, it seems quite silly to just leave the bulbapedia entry at "a combination of mal and calamari". Pedestrian, no? At the very least specify that "mal" is indeed a prefix followed by something like "representing mal  adv. (< Latin male  badly, ill) and adj. (< Latin malus  bad)". I hat to be such a stickler, but it's really bugging me. I think it should be addressed.
Clearly the MAL in Malamar can more easily be related to such words as Malignant, Maleficent, Malicious. So many words, it seems quite silly to just leave the bulbapedia entry at "a combination of mal and calamari". Pedestrian, no? At the very least specify that "mal" is indeed a prefix followed by something like "from the Latin Malus, meaning bad". Here's a link to the dictionary definition of the prefix http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mal-
 
I hate to be such a stickler, but it's really bugging me. I think it should be addressed.
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