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.

Aug 24, 2012 · 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.

Nov 16, 2011 · @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.

Mar 29, 2016 · I am looking for a term or and idiomatic expression to convey the concept of "empty, irrelevant" talk. I am thinking about those situations in which people want to express their ideas on facts ab...

Apr 3, 2012 · Possible Duplicate: When should I use “shall” versus “will”? I have learnt in school we should use shall with I, you and we. But I often see people saying I will, you w...

Jan 23, 2019 · 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.

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I will go to university tomorrow. I'll go to university tomorrow. is the emphasised version; 2 is the de-emphasised version.

In the San Francisco Bay area there are a large number of painted signs by storm sewers that originally read: "No Dumping Flows to Bay" I did not like these signs and complained because the signs declarative meaning (that nothing dumped there would flow into the bay) was the opposite of what the writer attempted to convey in this telegraphic style.

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