Randomguy Posted February 18, 2018 Share #1 Posted February 18, 2018 This PSA is for everyone. 'Voila' is as close as I get, how do I add grammatical marks and things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #2 Posted February 18, 2018 3 minutes ago, Intestinal Parasite said: This PSA is for everyone. 'Voila' is as close as I get, how do I add grammatical marks and things? As an American, you just say "wa-la". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #3 Posted February 18, 2018 Now, say "foyer" for me so I can get mad enough to punch you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #4 Posted February 18, 2018 Otto Correct always puts the squiggle in jalapeño for me. Viola! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris... Posted February 18, 2018 Share #5 Posted February 18, 2018 voilà 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share #6 Posted February 18, 2018 1 minute ago, Chris... said: voilà Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #7 Posted February 18, 2018 With Apple products, just hold the "a" and you will get language related options. Don't know about that weird windows crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share #8 Posted February 18, 2018 4 minutes ago, Wilbur said: As an American, you just say "wa-la". I am not that 'murican. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #9 Posted February 18, 2018 See.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #10 Posted February 18, 2018 6 minutes ago, Wilbur said: Now, say "foyer" for me so I can get mad enough to punch you. foy yer Fwa yeah, lets call the whole thing off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted February 18, 2018 Share #11 Posted February 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, Wilbur said: As an American, you just say "wa-la". I was at a gas station departing Walloonia, heading for Paris. With each sale, the cashier did in fact call out "wa-la". It was pretty memorabable. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 18, 2018 Share #12 Posted February 18, 2018 Wallá (On a Windows OS, "Character Map". Copy and paste.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted February 18, 2018 Share #13 Posted February 18, 2018 voilà I had to mis-spell it for Otto to chime in with the accent thinghy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted February 18, 2018 Share #14 Posted February 18, 2018 ...what do all you people have against the viola ? It's perfectly legitimate string instrument, essential to most quartets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted February 18, 2018 Share #15 Posted February 18, 2018 I was probably in my early 40's before I realised "viola" was wa-la. I couldn't figure out why people wrote it. Then after 40 years the freaking light bulb lit... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted February 19, 2018 Share #16 Posted February 19, 2018 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa This is what you get when you keep holding "a" on Windows. You also get the $900 extra dollars you didn't waste on a Mac in order to run mostly Windows-based software. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted February 19, 2018 Share #17 Posted February 19, 2018 Àáâäæãåā, whelp I might not learn something new every day but I did today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted February 19, 2018 Share #18 Posted February 19, 2018 13 hours ago, MickinMD said: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa This is what you get when you keep holding "a" on Windows. You also get the $900 extra dollars you didn't waste on a Mac in order to run mostly Windows-based software. I thought Windows was mostly iOS and GUI software? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted February 19, 2018 Share #19 Posted February 19, 2018 On 2/18/2018 at 10:51 AM, Intestinal Parasite said: This PSA is for everyone. 'Voila' is as close as I get, how do I add grammatical marks and things? When you googled "voila" to figure out WTF voilà meant, why didn't you just copy/paste the "fixed" spelling version???? Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted February 19, 2018 Share #20 Posted February 19, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted February 19, 2018 Share #21 Posted February 19, 2018 If you use the specialty symbol often enough, you learn the short cut. Voilà. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted February 19, 2018 Share #22 Posted February 19, 2018 5 hours ago, Wilbur said: I thought Windows was mostly iOS and GUI software? Probably! Back in 1981 when I wrote the first animated adventure game for computers, Castles of Darkness (see me on the Giant List of Classic Game Programmers: http://dadgum.com/giantlist/), the latest in home computers was the Apple II and Dave, the owner of the publishing house The Logical Choice, gave me a copy of the book "Beneath Apple DOS" and asked me to re-write the operating system so it would run on an Apple II but the major copying programs available then couldn't copy it. I mainly changed the number of consecutive bytes that would be read from the floppy disk at a time -actually speeding it up a lot as applied to that game by reading bigger chunks- and that fooled the copy programs. Then Intel PC's came out and used Microsoft's DOS. But that didn't come from Apple. Microsoft paid a guy who had an alternative microcomputer language $50,000 for his operating system, modified it slightly, and renamed it. Who did what, when, and where after that is beyond me. All I know is I'm typing on a good-as-new, passed back through the assembly line, certified refurbished 17.3" touchscreen HP laptop with Win 10, a highly-rated AMD 12-9700p quad core 2.5 - 3.4 GHz processor, 12 GB RAM, 2 TB HD (I need the storage when I'm working with homemade videos, etc. plus I have a few hundred megabytes of chess stuff), DVD Burner, plus all the bells and whistles including Bluetooth (my smartphone text messages pop-up on my computer screen) and SD Card reader, and it cost me $519.99 total. I can't get anything close to that price for that much with Apple, so Win 10 works for me. A certified refurbished Macbook Pro laptop for around $500 has a slower i5 Intel quad core processor, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HD, and a 13.3" screen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted February 19, 2018 Share #23 Posted February 19, 2018 35 minutes ago, MickinMD said: Probably! Back in 1981 when I wrote the first animated adventure game for computers, Castles of Darkness (see me on the Giant List of Classic Game Programmers: http://dadgum.com/giantlist/), the latest in home computers was the Apple II and Dave, the owner of the publishing house The Logical Choice, gave me a copy of the book "Beneath Apple DOS" and asked me to re-write the operating system so it would run on an Apple II but the major copying programs available then couldn't copy it. I mainly changed the number of consecutive bytes that would be read from the floppy disk at a time -actually speeding it up a lot as applied to that game by reading bigger chunks- and that fooled the copy programs. Then Intel PC's came out and used Microsoft's DOS. But that didn't come from Apple. Microsoft paid a guy who had an alternative microcomputer language $50,000 for his operating system, modified it slightly, and renamed it. Who did what, when, and where after that is beyond me. All I know is I'm typing on a good-as-new, passed back through the assembly line, certified refurbished 17.3" touchscreen HP laptop with Win 10, a highly-rated AMD 12-9700p quad core 2.5 - 3.4 GHz processor, 12 GB RAM, 2 TB HD (I need the storage when I'm working with homemade videos, etc. plus I have a few hundred megabytes of chess stuff), DVD Burner, plus all the bells and whistles including Bluetooth (my smartphone text messages pop-up on my computer screen) and SD Card reader, and it cost me $519.99 total. I can't get anything close to that price for that much with Apple, so Win 10 works for me. A certified refurbished Macbook Pro laptop for around $500 has a slower i5 Intel quad core processor, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB HD, and a 13.3" screen. Essentially Mick is saying that if @Intestinal Parasite could get MS-DOS working on his PC, he'd have no issue typing voilà. Tom 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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