In the latest series of cases involving blasphemy laws in Indonesia, a TikToker with more than than 2 million followers is found guilty and jailed for two years for saying an Islamic phrase before eating crispy pork skin.
Hilarious that you draw that comparison. My dad got fucken enraged at someone when she cut us off in line and said something like “I swear to God I was already in line”. He went from angry to outraged. “Don’t you dare swear on him cuz you’re gonna have to meet him someday and then we’ll see whose laughing!”.
Wallah, the sound, has a number of roots. I’d only heard it used as an anglicized version of voila, which is relatively recent in the English language and started as a joke.
Here’s a link from someone who put in more work researching this than I can bother with.
TIL that “wallah” is a religious phrase
It basically means “I swear to god”
Hilarious that you draw that comparison. My dad got fucken enraged at someone when she cut us off in line and said something like “I swear to God I was already in line”. He went from angry to outraged. “Don’t you dare swear on him cuz you’re gonna have to meet him someday and then we’ll see whose laughing!”.
Religious people are baffling.
Wallah wallah wallah uh, tell me more, tell me more…
Wallah, the sound, has a number of roots. I’d only heard it used as an anglicized version of voila, which is relatively recent in the English language and started as a joke.
Here’s a link from someone who put in more work researching this than I can bother with.