Re^3: perlmonksflair.com : get your perlmonks flair!

It's perfectly correct. Violer is the verb "to rape"; conjugated into the 3rd person, singular past tense, it's viola.

But also it's a violet, and a musical instrument.

I can't imagine many contexts where the three usages would be likely to be confused.

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Re^4: perlmonksflair.com : get your perlmonks flair! by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 13, 2013 at 10:25 UTC
I can't imagine many contexts where the three usages would be likely to be confused There's this sweet innocent female musician (bit of a shrinking violet type) walking down the street carrying her viola ... and this French guy wants to rape her ... (Hmmm, might have the potential but a bit contrived, perhaps.) Cheers, Rob	[reply]