What's the equivalent for "blah blah blah" in your language?
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I just saw this strip of The far side, where a duck says how its wife just say "quack quack quack" in the morning and "quack quack quack" in the night, instead of "blah blah blah".
In french it's "hon hon hon blah blah blah hon hon"
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I just saw this strip of The far side, where a duck says how its wife just say "quack quack quack" in the morning and "quack quack quack" in the night, instead of "blah blah blah".
wrote last edited by [email protected]Blá blá blá, blábláblá, and other variations in Portuguese
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I just saw this strip of The far side, where a duck says how its wife just say "quack quack quack" in the morning and "quack quack quack" in the night, instead of "blah blah blah".
"da da da" in Spanish.
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Oh yes, "et patati et patata" is pretty common too!
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Oh yes, "et patati et patata" is pretty common too!
That sounds like a cognate of the (American) English usage “potato, potato” (but pronounced poh-TAY-toe, poh-TAH-toe) to indicate the lack of distinction between two items that have been presented as different.
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I just saw this strip of The far side, where a duck says how its wife just say "quack quack quack" in the morning and "quack quack quack" in the night, instead of "blah blah blah".
GenX:
Whatever, man.
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Pälä-pälä-pälä in Finnish.
ä marks the sound marked with "a" in "cat".
Or "plaa-plaa-plaa"
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I just saw this strip of The far side, where a duck says how its wife just say "quack quack quack" in the morning and "quack quack quack" in the night, instead of "blah blah blah".
🤌🤌🤌 in ISL (Italian sign language).
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I just saw this strip of The far side, where a duck says how its wife just say "quack quack quack" in the morning and "quack quack quack" in the night, instead of "blah blah blah".
"bilmem ne bilmem ne", "dı dı" in turkish
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Yada yada yada in Seinfeld.
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's more from Jewish/Yiddish roots, I believe.
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"da da da" in Spanish.
Relevant: https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA
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🤌🤌🤌 in ISL (Italian sign language).
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Relevant: https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA
Haven’t heard that in a very long time!
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"da da da" in Spanish.
Ooh.. Spain? Or where in latam?
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"da da da" in Spanish.
wrote last edited by [email protected]In the region of Mexico where I come from we sometimes say "habla/dice puro takataka"
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That sounds like a cognate of the (American) English usage “potato, potato” (but pronounced poh-TAY-toe, poh-TAH-toe) to indicate the lack of distinction between two items that have been presented as different.
It's more likely cognate with the word "patter", or at the very least, a parallel development from the same underlying onomatopoeia. Nothing to do with spuds.
The emphasis is on the last syllable of each, "e-pata-TI, e-pata-TA".
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Ooh.. Spain? Or where in latam?
It was a Mexican professor who once corrected one of my former classmates.
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I just saw this strip of The far side, where a duck says how its wife just say "quack quack quack" in the morning and "quack quack quack" in the night, instead of "blah blah blah".
Pam param, pam param
