It almost makes sense if he meant "wallah"

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

He didn't mean that of course...

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

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

hahahahahaha. I love this thread.

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

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...

où ;)

Your french is pretty good!

L'arroseur devient l'arrosé ... ahah

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

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". :)

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!"

Oh, that's what he meant.

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

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

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

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

Muphry's law strikes again!