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Complete tangent: "voila" is French for "here it is", but "viola" is French for "raped". Careful using foreign words if you're not sure you can spell them.

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Viola also means purple/violet or the instrument. Let's try to be more chill about people making typos, nobody, even a fluent French speaker would read it as "raped". Only someone with a keen eye for drama and being a nuisance.

I very much meant it as a nitpick. This is a single comment labeled as a tangent, how is it "drama"? Chill.

They weren't accusing you.

The "someone" refers to me.

I don't think it does. You were providing a warning, not actually reading it that way.

I think "let's try to be more chill" applied to you (and to some extent everyone) but not the last line.

But I admit it's possible I'm being too generous.

Someone reading it the wrong way wouldn't be a nuisance, he was obviously referring to the person posting a comment about it (me)

My interpretation was it's saying someone that reads it the wrong way (on purpose) and posts about it actually meaning that is a drama-monger.

Only in the exclusively literary tense that is never used in normal speech.

Edit: below you say you’re French, so you know this already, I guess.

Not exactly, its the 3rd person of passé simple

Voilà - there it is

Viola - musical instrument

violé - raped

Accents matter but not as much as different letters. Don't correct spelling without knowing the proper term.

I'm literally French. I'm sorry you don't know the passé simple.

https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/violer.php

il viola isn't voilà. Remove il and it becomes violer. People don't use 3rd person singular. People would say:

"Il a violé" (he raped) in past tense.

I don't think it is as offensive as parent suggested.

"I'm literally French": Welcome brother

Confidently wrong while being a dick to the person who was right. Classic HN.

It's not classic HN unless someone unrelated picks a side randomly and decides to up the ante and personally insult someone and then blame the culture here.

I've got news for you, you are part of the culture you pretend to hate.

What if I want someone to look at my big violin?

Scare bleu!

> "voila" is French for "here it is"

I thought it was French for "look at that" (or I guess, literally, "look over there").

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