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).
“da da da” in Spanish.
In the region of Mexico where I come from we sometimes say “habla/dice puro takataka”
Love it
Relevant: https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA
Haven’t heard that in a very long time!
Ooh… Spain? Or where in latam?
It was a Mexican professor who once corrected one of my former classmates.
Pälä-pälä-pälä in Finnish.
ä marks the sound marked with “a” in “cat”.
Huh. Sounds a lot like Japanese ペラペラ (perapera) which is used to denote incessant talking/blabbering (but also fluently talking in another language).
Or “plaa-plaa-plaa”
bla bla bla (german)
Blablabla (french) or sometimes “et blablabli et blablabla” (south-east at least)
English here. One of the few things I remember from my French lessons was a comic where one character said it «… et patati, et patata.»
I forget where in France that was supposed to be. We’d moved on from the Tricolor books set in La Rochelle (west coast) at that point, I think, but it might still have been there.
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.
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”.
We definitely say that too
“bilmem ne bilmem ne”, “dı dı” in turkish
‘bla-bla-bla’ (French).
More spelling are available: ‘blabla’, ‘bla-bla’, ‘bla-bla-bla’.
Yada yada yada in Seinfeld.
That’s more from Jewish/Yiddish roots, I believe.
Blá blá blá, blábláblá, and other variations in Portuguese
noop; noop; noop;In french it’s “hon hon hon blah blah blah hon hon”
GenX:
Whatever, man.
Wow so bla bla bla is fairly universal
in spanish it’s just bla bla bla
bla bla bla (English)
