Re: [NTLK] [OT] Wala, Voila

From: Alan Davis (mdawd_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Feb 14 2004 - 06:19:28 PST


You also forgot: Wala- the Arabic form of the intransitive "or."
 or maybe: Wala- the first and second portions of a city in Washington
State, USA.

I usually get upset about people flaming other people's grammer and spelling
online, but done this eloquently, who can resist!

On 02/13/04 2:20 PM, "Eric Engle" <engleerica_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Wala - Urdu term of endearment, can apply both to lovers and children (mind
> out of gutter please) though likely not to parents (hey, my parents speak no
> Urdu, how should I know. Urdu is spoken in India and Pakistan by tens if not
> hundreds of millions of people and is basically right up there with Hindi and
> English).

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