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[threeplusfire]

I can't count the number of times I'm reading a review where someone has written "wallah!" or "walla!" lately. Unsurprisingly I see this mostly on Wal-Mart and Sam's Club's stuff. This is so petty but it makes me want to jump up and shout It's French you numbskulls, and it's voilà damn it. Though apparently in common English usage the accent mark is dropped. For bonus points, wallah is a Hindi word for worker.

Seriously. I am a product of public education in a state that really doesn't care about providing quality education and even I know that.

In other news, yes, my back still hurts.

Comments

[brienze.livejournal.com]

I leave off the accent mark because windows STILL, after a decade, doesn't offer an easy way (like Key Caps on Macs) to type characters with accent marks. Remembering the html for & hearts ; and & amp ; is really about all I'm good for.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

You're right - making accent marks with standard keyboard settings is a severe pain.

At least you are aware that it is a word and not someone's made up sound. (Unless you are secretly writing fake reviews just to drive me mad :P )

[curmudgn]

Which means you could introduce yourself, "Hi, I'm A, and I'm a Net-wallah."

[wonderlandkat.livejournal.com]

I just spent five minutes trying to figure out what "wallah" would even mean in real English (getting distracted by things like dishwallah). Disturbing when I realized they mean Voila!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I am in favor hilarious sounding rhymes!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Isn't it weird? The first several times I was so confused, but I finally parsed it out. At first I thought it was some baby talk version of "ta da!"

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

What gets me is people repeating cliche phrases without any understanding of them, or getting them wrong. Like "I could care less about it". So you do actually care about it?

Also, the current trend here for people saying "literally" in totally inappropriate ways as a filler word. "My legs just literally turned to jelly". I don't think they did...

And lastly... the American disease of being unable to say a number without putting "like" in front of it. I must have seen that like 10 times today.

[in-thy-bounty.livejournal.com]

This also reminds me of a couple of favourite pieces of graffiti I've photographed over the years. One had an anarchist 'A' symbol with the slogan 'RECLAM THE STRETS'. But my all-time favourite remains a swastika with the words 'NATSY ZEEK HEIL'. We should start a community for people to post their favourite examples.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

That dreadful scourge, like! I try hard to make sure it doesn't creep into my speech, and feel some shame whenever I catch myself saying it. I blame California. That is a weird speech thing I associate with California beach jargon.

Natsy! ahahahahah, that's so awesome.