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".
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".
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Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz · 39 pts · 1y
Pälä-pälä-pälä in Finnish.
ä marks the sound marked with "a" in "cat".
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 21 pts · 1y
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).
Jojowski@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
Or "plaa-plaa-plaa"
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de · 34 pts · 1y
bla bla bla (german)
Libb@piefed.social · 28 pts · 1y
'bla-bla-bla' (French).
More spelling are available: 'blabla', 'bla-bla', 'bla-bla-bla'.
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
🤌🤌🤌 in ISL (Italian sign language).
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Bernar_moustach@jlai.lu · 23 pts · 1y
Blablabla (french) or sometimes "et blablabli et blablabla" (south-east at least)
palordrolap@fedia.io · 13 pts · 1y
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.
Bernar_moustach@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 1y
Oh yes, "et patati et patata" is pretty common too!
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1y
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.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y
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".
truite@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 1y
We definitely say that too
stoly@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
"da da da" in Spanish.
fadhl3y@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Relevant: https://youtu.be/xqTBlft8gQA
stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Haven’t heard that in a very long time!
capuccino@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
In the region of Mexico where I come from we sometimes say "habla/dice puro takataka"
stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Love it
GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
Ooh.. Spain? Or where in latam?
stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It was a Mexican professor who once corrected one of my former classmates.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Yada yada yada in Seinfeld.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
That's more from Jewish/Yiddish roots, I believe.
callyral@pawb.social · 14 pts · 1y
Blá blá blá, blábláblá, and other variations in Portuguese
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
noop; noop; noop;steeznson@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
In french it's "hon hon hon blah blah blah hon hon"
xpey@piefed.social · 11 pts · 1y
in spanish it's just bla bla bla
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 1y
"bilmem ne bilmem ne", "dı dı" in turkish
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y
Wow so bla bla bla is fairly universal
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
bla bla bla (English)
shalafi@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
GenX:
Whatever, man.
Justas@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Pam param, pam param