On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:23:57 -0500, flipper wrote:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:10:10 -0600, hamilton
wrote:
On 8/8/2012 9:57 PM, flipper wrote:
One imagines you meant "voilą," which English speakers, unable to find
them pesky 'foreign' characters on the keyboard, usually type as
"voila."
Kind of looses it umph, when you have to explain it.
Yeah, well, when it remains a mystery it looses some umph too 
Sort of like when a tree falls and there's no sentient being around to
hear it does it make a noise? No, because "sound" is a 'perception'.
Otherwise it's just air moving around.
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Ah, but noise exists whether or not it's perceived as sound.
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JF