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- Where does blah meaning idle talk come from?
Bla! Bla! What absurd ideas some people have 1848 - The Santa Fe Republican (Santa Fe, NM) 15 Oct 3 4 Baby talk A few other early examples use "bla" to describe baby-talk, setting up the possibility that it was first used to describe meaningless talk from an infant and grew from that to refer to idle or meaningless talk generally
- orthography - Is blah blah blah the most common spelling? - English . . .
The phrase "blah blah blah" is so informal as to not warrant an official, correct spelling by any authority So only practice defines (circularly) what is the most common And that seems to me 'blah blah blah'
- Any other way of saying blah blah blah - English Language Usage . . .
You might say "blah blah blah" when you're not interested in what'd be said I sometimes say "whatever" to convey the same idea, which does not share the nice rhythm effect of "blah blah blah" As
- What is the difference between University of Bla and Bla University . . .
In some scientific papers, we see that some professors write "University of Bla" on their papers, while others write "Bla University" What is the difference between "University of Bla" and "Bla University"?
- What to use for rain ? Set on, set off, set in, set down
I saw this in an English Level Test I don't remember the complete sentence It was like, bla bla bla (here there was something I don't remember) really rain Three dots is where you will use one of the verbs on the title I wrote What to use for 3 dots in this case? What do other verbs mean and how to use them in a sentence?
- In the next or in next? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which variant is correct, "the main idea was in the next: bla-bla-bla" or "the main idea was in next: bla-bla-bla?"
- punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I assumed you would use dots to show left-out unnecessary text in a quote, such as in The definition of used oil is "oil that is xyz" The deleted portion is non-useful text that would confus
- What goes better with first -- second or secondly?
Why did such and so happen? First, bla bla Second, bla-pity bla bla bla I'm thinking "secondly" would sound better But if I use "secondly," do I have to use "firstly" -- which sounds so -- yuck The tone of the piece of writing is medium formal I mean, it's formal, but not formal at the level of a brief submitted to the Supreme Court
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