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
🤌🤌🤌 in ISL (Italian sign language).
Pälä-pälä-pälä in Finnish.
ä marks the sound marked with “a” in “c_a_t”.
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)
‘bla-bla-bla’ (French).
More spelling are available: ‘blabla’, ‘bla-bla’, ‘bla-bla-bla’.
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
“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.
Yada yada yada in Seinfeld.
That’s more from Jewish/Yiddish roots.
Blá blá blá, blábláblá, and other variations in Portuguese
noop; noop; noop;“bilmem ne bilmem ne”, “dı dı” in turkish
In french it’s “hon hon hon blah blah blah hon hon”
in spanish it’s just bla bla bla
Wow so bla bla bla is fairly universal
bla bla bla (English)
