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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
- This page intentionally left blank - English Language Usage Stack . . .
If you look at published books and journals that have blank pages, you'll find some with printed statements: This page intentionally left blank Why is there no flected verb ("is"): This page is
- 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
- meaning in context - Which article should be used in this case . . .
When I tell someone a long, adventure, multi-stage story and use the phrase: "Bla-bla-bla Then I jumped over fence, bla-bla-bla ", what article should I use in this case with the word "fence"? I'm using the word "fence" in this context for the first time here
- 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
- 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?"
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