Soon this wheel became a game a game that has lasted the centuries and is still played just about all over the world. He was looking to discover a perpetual motion machine but failing that (as have thousands of failing inventors throughout history), he came up with the roulette wheel. Scientist, philosopher, and mathematician Blaise Pascal invented roulette in the 1600s.
Yes, indeed, you have me to thank for the word. If your spouse is an annoying bully, she/he is a malafit for you. Most people have many malafits in their lives but we never had a way to express that. Sometimes language can be somewhat stultifying. I invented the word because I think the English language needs an opposite of a benefit. Malafit is simply the opposite of a benefit. If you had a full-time job but your bosses didn’t give you lunch, that absence of lunch would be a malafit. The opposite of “good” is bad or “mal” in Latin. This comes from the root “bene,” which means good. When you work a full-time job and you get medical insurance, eye insurance, dental insurance, pension payments and the like we call those additions to your salary benefits. Now you might be wondering what the word malafit means.
