Comments on: Yadda-Yadda-Yadda http://www.starchamber.com/1996/04/yadda_yadda_yadda.html Ned Gulley's Blog. Resident buzzwords: wise crowds, accelerated design, swarm robotics, synthetic biology. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:08:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ned http://www.starchamber.com/1996/04/yadda_yadda_yadda.html/comment-page-1#comment-4 Ned Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:02:34 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=6#comment-4 The idiosyncratic literary yadda-yadda-yadda is also of interest; has anyone else heard of the usage of zub zub zub? I am reminded that Hamlet says "buzz buzz!" to Polonius in Act II in a sort of a blah-blah-blah situation. Dare I posit a palindromic placeholder word? Finally, I read in a book by Richard Feynman that his preferred blah-blah was wa-wa. But none of these makes a real claim on the public imagination, so far as I can tell, and beyond that, Wawa is the name of a food market chain. The idiosyncratic literary yadda-yadda-yadda is also of interest; has anyone
else heard of the usage of zub zub zub? I am reminded that Hamlet says “buzz
buzz!” to Polonius in Act II in a sort of a blah-blah-blah situation. Dare I posit a palindromic placeholder word? Finally, I read in a book by Richard Feynman that his preferred blah-blah was wa-wa. But none of these makes a real claim on the public imagination, so far as I can tell, and beyond that, Wawa is the name of a food market chain.

]]> By: Lisa W. http://www.starchamber.com/1996/04/yadda_yadda_yadda.html/comment-page-1#comment-3 Lisa W. Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:01:03 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=6#comment-3 Whilst reading MFK Fisher, I perchanced to come upon a "blah blah blah" I'd never heard of before. It, in its context, follows: "There are several more or less logical reasons why meat grows scarce in war time: soldiers need it, there are fewer cattle, zub zub zub." I thought you should know. Whilst reading MFK Fisher, I perchanced to come upon a “blah blah blah” I’d never
heard of before. It, in its context, follows:

“There are several more or less logical reasons why meat grows scarce in war time: soldiers need it, there are fewer cattle, zub zub zub.”

I thought you should know.

]]> By: Mike S. http://www.starchamber.com/1996/04/yadda_yadda_yadda.html/comment-page-1#comment-2 Mike S. Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:58:47 +0000 http://starchamber.com/?p=6#comment-2 Eto and ano - while analogous to uh and um are not analogous to yadda-yadda-yadda. The Japanese phrase for this is nan-to-ka, nan-to-ka (literally, "something and something" - which sounds a lot like the literal precursor of blah-blah-blah which is "something"). Also, although it might be possible to believe that Spanish has no yadda-yadda-yadda equivalent (though I find it highly unlikely) - I refuse to believe that it has no uh, um equivalent. Eto and ano – while analogous to uh and um are not analogous to yadda-yadda-yadda. The Japanese phrase for this is nan-to-ka, nan-to-ka (literally, “something and something” – which sounds a lot like the literal precursor of blah-blah-blah which is “something”). Also, although it might be possible to believe that Spanish has no yadda-yadda-yadda equivalent (though I find it highly unlikely) – I refuse to believe that it has no uh, um equivalent.

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