Tag: Voilà

March 13, 2013 /

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  there
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/voila

Often heard as “et, voilà!”

And, there it is: Consider yourself disabused.

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