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Bookmark or Share- Any other way of saying "blah blah blah" - English Language & Usage ...1. @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.
- 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.
- Where should the comma be placed in the salutation of a letter?Bla bla bla... Or in a more formal situation: Dear Mr. Black, 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.
- What is the "gratitude" at the end of the letter or post called?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 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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