Daily Prompt: Silver Screen
Take a quote from your favorite movie — there’s the title of your post. Now, write!
I’ve done plenty of writing today so I am going to keep this one short.
I don’t really know what my favourite film is. Doing favourites is so limiting, don’t you think? But one of the films that I enjoy very much and have watched over and again is The Fifth Element – and that allows me to pick a quote that lets me have a quick rant. It is a rant I have been wanting to have for some time. There is a thing that has been irritating me for years:
Wallah!
or
Walah!
or
Wala!
or
WA LA
…as noticed only last week.
So many bloggers, so inclined to display their total ignorance of other cultural and language references. Beyond belief.
*sigh*
It’s Voilà, folks, on loan to us from the French. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg clearly knew how to cope with it: “Voila! The ZF-1” and so can you, now.
It isn’t even pronouced W – the invisible W is merged with the V = vw – so why spell it with a W!
voi·là
[vwah-lah; French vwa-la]
interjection(used to express success or satisfaction). Voilà, my new winter outfit!Also, voi·la.Origin:
1825–35; < French, equivalent to voi see! (2nd person singular imperative of voir to see) + la therehttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voila
Often heard as “et, voilà!”
And, there it is: Consider yourself disabused.