|
- 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 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?"
- 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
- Where should the comma be placed in the salutation of a letter?
Bla bla bla It is uncommon to put a comma before the title even in an informal email salutation (though quite acceptable), but it would never be done in a formal letter email
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Nowadays, to my surprise, this word is completely replaced by toffees cough- drops sweet- tablets candies bla… bla… bla… which caused me to think that the word is obsolete now
|
|
|