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I see it frequently here... I suppose it comes from French. Viola means rape(il la viola) or break the law(il viola la loi). The real one is voilà! And dropping
by tchvil 4y ago
I see it frequently here... I suppose it comes from French.
Viola means rape(il la viola) or break the law(il viola la loi).
The real one is voilà!
And dropping the accent, is apparently acceptable in English. Voila! ;)
- jholman 4y agoBecause we're writing in English, "viola" is neither rape nor lawbreaking, though "violate" can mean either of those. In English, "viola" is the name of a stringed instrument. Voila, behold a viola! One fourth of a string quartet! But if you're irked by "viola", it could be worse, they could have written "wallah", which is all too frequent.
- samarthr1 4y agoAnd in Hindi, Wallah means 'person'. Generally used in conjunction with their business. For example, a sweet shop owner is called a Mithai Wallah.
- bombcar 4y agoViolà! A wallah in Walla Walla with a wall a' wallabies! https://wallawalla.org https://wallawalla.org
- jfk13 4y ago> In English, "viola" is the name of a stringed instrument. Or a flower.
- jcranberry 4y agoContextually the person is obviously trying to use the french borrow word voilà.
- kwonkicker 4y agoI laughed hard at this revelation
- afiori 4y ago> il Are you mixing French and Italian articles? As an addendum wiktionary[0] is always useful when searching other meanings of a word [0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viola https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viola
- Contexti 4y agoil is a pronoun[0] in French. I haven't learned French since high school, but here's how I would translate the examples: il la viola "He raped her" il viola la loi "He broke the law" [0](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/il#French https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/il#French)
- afiori 4y agooh, I did not know, but I studied about 6 hours of French in my life, so it is not surprising.