"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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> "Peppermint Patootie" > wrote in message
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>> In article >,
>> "Janet" > wrote:
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>>> Ozgirl wrote:
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>>> <snip>
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>>> > But viola isn't mocking. Wallah is as most people who don't know how
>>> > to spell voila will write it as they hear it. Big difference. Mocking
>>> > isn't subtle.
>>>
>>> I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on this one. <G>
>>
>> It began as an audible joke. Possibly when it is translated into
>> written form it becomes more difficult for some to recognize the joke?
>
> When is mocking the less educated ever a joke? If this happened in a
> workplace there would be hell to play.
> Why do a small few in here continually justify discrimination. Would you
> be so ready to overlook people who mocked your sexual preferences? I think
> not. You spat the dummy over a misintepretation of Susan's words about
> something that you were very sensitive about . People often can't help
> their lack of education and shouldn't be the butt off jokes by small
> minded people who think they are better than them for some reason.

In my book it isn't a joke. It's like the person who says something really
nasty and rude to you and then when you get upset they laugh and say they
were just joking.

As I said to Janet, others here have used the spelling of "wallah" before
and I honestly think they didn't know any better. I am not naming any names
but you have been here long enough that you probably remember. To me to
have someone deliberately spell it wrong is making fun of those people.

In my family we might mis-say something or even mis-spell it when we are
mocking ourselves. For instance when we can't figure out how to do
something that should be easy to do but we can't figure it out we might
finally say, "Oh! I dood it! I dood it!" Instead of "I did it." But in
that case we are not mocking someone else. We are mocking ourselves.