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To: EL KABONG!!! who wrote (49869)	5/12/2004 1:02:35 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (5) of 74559

>>Nice try, but the word/phrase you're looking for is "Voila!!!", not "Viola!!!"...<< Holy cow, Kerry! I included an explanatory paragraph in my post. Was my explanatory paragraph not sufficiently explanatory? I guess it's a mistake to leave anything to be inferred on this thread. So, you have forced me to do it. Explain my post, that is. I am seeing the word "viola!" in increasingly broad usage as an incorrect and very humorous, imo, substitute for the word "voila!" The humorous aspect of it for me is that the writer (or sometimes even speaker) is attempting to show their sophistication by the use of a furrin word, and instead achieves the exact opposite effect (I guess I should explain this also - the exact opposite effect is that they show the depths of their ignorance where they were trying to demonstrate knowledge). This humorous effect is called irony, though in this particular case the irony is unintentional. Now, irony is not well tolerated or even well understood in the USA, and you may be one of those many Americans who lack the irony gene, in which case your miscomprehension of my post would not be your fault.

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