Timeline for Voili-voilou : Is this a common saying?
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| Nov 8, 2018 at 22:26 | vote | accept | Harry Audus | ||
| Oct 20, 2018 at 16:08 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2018 at 15:03 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak♦ | What are its characteristics outside denotation? Sarcastic? Familiar? Imitating child speech? | |
| Oct 20, 2018 at 14:53 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 20, 2018 at 14:28 | comment | added | LPH | On the contrary, jocular is the proper adjective insofar as the form "voili-voilou" is concerned; I was trying to draw the difference between this latter and what I think might be the precursor, that one being used (I think) on another basis (not so jocular and quite possibly sarcastic); the problem remains for "slang"; for that matter it suggested a full post to me. | |
| Oct 20, 2018 at 14:10 | comment | added | jlliagre | @user168676 Slang might be excessive indeed, the reason why I wrote kind of. It is neither offensive to people, nor restricted to a particular social group. May be jocular is also not the best adjective, I just wanted to mean that voili-voilou is often said with a smile. | |
| Oct 20, 2018 at 11:08 | comment | added | LPH | This form is quite possibly issued, as a popular distortion, from the "voilà-voilà" or "voilà-voilà-voilà" that one could find in the Loire region or thereabouts at least thirty years back; as far as I know it wasn't used with a complement and its use didn't aim so much at jocularity as to communicating a certain finality relative to a state of affairs just discussed or exposed and to which it was a conclusion; supposing the process of formation suggested is verified is it still correct to classify this form as "slang"? | |
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| Oct 19, 2018 at 23:25 | history | edited | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2018 at 23:14 | history | answered | jlliagre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |