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Re:Subcases and Hierarchy by pavlov on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @02:17PM (#800779)
Wallah! Task lists. I can understand leaving out the accent on voilà, but "wallah"? It's not even pronounced like that.

If you Americans insist on writing French with such a horrible accent, I'm going to start raiting English vit my Finnish äksent. Rivendz vil pi sviit.

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Re:Subcases and Hierarchy by rubinelli on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @06:50PM (#801301)
You, monsieur, are mistaken about the provenance of the word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallah_%28arabic%29
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Re:Subcases and Hierarchy by extension on Thursday September 03, 2009 @05:33AM (#802106)
Based on the context, it's more likely Joel intended to use say this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0
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