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Complete tangent: "voila" is French for "here it is", but "viola" is French for "raped". Careful using foreign words if you're not sure you can spell them.
by remram 2y ago
Complete tangent: "voila" is French for "here it is", but "viola" is French for "raped". Careful using foreign words if you're not sure you can spell them.
- mog_dev 2y agoNot exactly, its the 3rd person of passé simple
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> "voila" is French for "here it is" I thought it was French for "look at that" (or I guess, literally, "look over there").
- jakey_bakey 2y agoScare bleu!
- tedunangst 2y agoWhat if I want someone to look at my big violin?
- xandrius 2y agoViola also means purple/violet or the instrument. Let's try to be more chill about people making typos, nobody, even a fluent French speaker would read it as "raped". Only someone with a keen eye for drama and being a nuisance.
- remram 2y agoI very much meant it as a nitpick. This is a single comment labeled as a tangent, how is it "drama"? Chill.
- Dylan16807 2y agoThey weren't accusing you.
- remram 2y agoThe "someone" refers to me.
- Dylan16807 2y agoI don't think it does. You were providing a warning, not actually reading it that way. I think "let's try to be more chill" applied to you (and to some extent everyone) but not the last line. But I admit it's possible I'm being too generous.
- remram 2y agoSomeone reading it the wrong way wouldn't be a nuisance, he was obviously referring to the person posting a comment about it (me)
- Dylan16807 2y agoMy interpretation was it's saying someone that reads it the wrong way (on purpose) and posts about it actually meaning that is a drama-monger.
- ipaddr 2y agoVoilà - there it is Viola - musical instrument violé - raped Accents matter but not as much as different letters. Don't correct spelling without knowing the proper term.
- remram 2y agoI'm literally French. I'm sorry you don't know the passé simple. https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/violer.php https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/violer.php
- ipaddr 2y agoil viola isn't voilà. Remove il and it becomes violer. People don't use 3rd person singular. People would say: "Il a violé" (he raped) in past tense. I don't think it is as offensive as parent suggested. "I'm literally French": Welcome brother
- School-Cotton 2y agoConfidently wrong while being a dick to the person who was right. Classic HN.
- ipaddr 2y agoIt's not classic HN unless someone unrelated picks a side randomly and decides to up the ante and personally insult someone and then blame the culture here. I've got news for you, you are part of the culture you pretend to hate.
- School-Cotton 2y agoOnly in the exclusively literary tense that is never used in normal speech. Edit: below you say you’re French, so you know this already, I guess.