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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 . . . bla bla bla ; bla bla; My question stems from when I first wrote it as "bla bla bla" in an English text, but a friend told me it should have been written as "blah blah" so I decided to ask here Before that I had checked it out on some online English dictionary and Google search but I wasn't able to clear it out
Any other way of saying blah blah blah - English Language Usage . . . @TerryLiYifeng: Oh As to meaning, it is mimicking someone talking a lot, in a deprecatory manner It is often a hand gesture that goes along with 'yadda yadda yadda' or 'blah blah blah' (but not at all with 'etc etc etc') or behind someones back when one is bored with their incessant blather
phrases - Does the casual use of a la ___ in English preserve the . . . The meaning is not preserved, at least in sentences like He showed us some moves à la 1987 It's true that à la Evita Peron would mean in the style used by Evita Peron, and that French people would say à la française to mean in the French style, but à la 1987 would not mean in the style used on 1987
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meaning - What is the word or term used to describe a person who . . . Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
What to use for rain ? Set on, set off, set in, set down Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
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Etymology of black - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In Old English, at least according to the online Old English Translator, there were two words, the adjective blæc, which meant black and the adjective blac, which meant pale, shining, white, along with the related verb blæcan, which meant to whiten, bleach