[orionsbelt]

Sorry, I'm normally not one of those people who correct others on spelling/grammar, but this is a pet peeve of mine: it's "voila" (french), not "wala".

[gahahaha]

It almost makes sense if he meant "wallah"

"""Just sends a simple SMS/text and I promise by God, you are in."""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallah_(Arabic)

He didn't mean that of course...

[dorian-graph]

Another possible misunderstanding is that "wala" in Filipino means to be missing/absent.

I was confused for a moment before I thought of "voila".

[kumarski]

hahahahahaha. I love this thread.

[fabrice_d]

It's actually "voilà" in real French... :P

[camus2]

ah , mais tout le monde peut se tromper,surtout avec le français, ou il est difficile de savoir comment un mot s'écrit tant qu'on ne l'a pas lu...

[tincholio]

où ;)

[gulbrandr]

Your french is pretty good!

[guiomie]

L'arroseur devient l'arrosé ... ahah

[coldtea]

Yep. And it's "per se" (Latin for: "in itself", "as it is") and not "per say" which doesn't mean anything at all.

[why-el]

Usually with loan words like this that are used enough, a spelling transformation is inevitable. I mean, I am sure voila itself is someone's pet peeve since its really "vois là". :)

[brianmcc]

I'd missed that initially; I'm amused that someone's gone all this time thinking "wala" is just a noise people make to indicate "done!"

[guelo]

Oh, that's what he meant.

[mverwijs]

Unless it's a wordplay, like Wuala(.com).

[mintplant]

Is that what that's supposed to be? I always pronounced it "Woo-allah" in my head.

[mverwijs]

I'm not sure if that's what it's supposed to be. But that's what I made of it. :)

[tincholio]

I was going to say the same... except it's "voilà"

[maw]

Muphry's law strikes again!