[NTLK] [OT] Wala, Voila

From: Eric Engle (engleerica_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 11:20:01 PST


Wala - Urdu term of endearment, can apply both to lovers and children (mind
out of gutter please) though likely not to parents (hey, my parents speak no
Urdu, how should I know. Urdu is spoken in India and Pakistan by tens if not
hundreds of millions of people and is basically right up there with Hindi and
English).

Voilà - French, fig. "there you go", literally "look there" (voir, là).

Try not to confuse the two in the future. Correct pronunciation is actually:
voilà "vwalah"
wala looks like it sounds, accent on first syllable.
Voilà can take the accent on the first syallable for emphasis of "surprise" "Et
puis, VWOIla! Quelle belle surprise!" The accent is placed on the second
syllable to emphasis "a fact". "Et puis, voiLA, c'était fait."

See, Zebda. "têtu comme deux chameaux/qui se dispute pour une verre d'eau" -
car, je suis.

Can you tell I do this for a living?
<dirty Harry voice> "Ignorance is a disease - and I'm the cure."
The ignorant suffer therefrom: put them out of their misery - teach them.

--- L A GREEN <lagoff11_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> I BEG to differ. my attentoin was caught by the rio riot mp3 player and i
> love it the only reason more folks didnt get it was similar to newtons,
> bigger, more expensive and more of what folks thought they needed. then
> ipods droped into the picture with sumthing small and cute and wala....

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