Friday, May 1, 2009
Have You Got a Case of the Blahs?
Please don't blah blah blah. Instead, finish your sentence or thought. It will be more effective and I will personally appreciate it. Is there a grammatically correct way to use blah blah blah? On email or texting probably. When speaking, rarely. Nonetheless, using it as a crutch because of a lazy brain or small vocabulary makes a speaker sound flip and just plain boring. When is flip appropriate? And why strive for boring? By depending on the blah to fill in for real language, you weaken your point. If it is a verbal habit of yours, keep it in check. People will find you more interesting.
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Oh this is one of my biggest pet peeves! I find people use it when they feel themselves rambling or getting too long-winded. They use it as a way out when they realize what they were saying was super unimportant. My sister adds a "whatever" to the end every. Blah, blah, blah, whatever!
You can add to your list "like, ummm, and you know?" I know one woman who uses them as if they are the only words in the English language. A normal paragraph for her is 100 words because she has so many extra "filler" words. If she cut out all these extras, her paragraph would be down to about 30-40 words. Sound good, like, OK?
Of course you hate it. Why? Because we only have a limited amount of time on the planet.
My father (practically) never swore. Not so much because he found it offensive, as much as he found it a lazy use of language. Ever notice how the "F" word is used as a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, dangling participle, etc? Buy a dictionary!
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