No, "I'm sorry." No, "we did this and we were wrong to have done this and we take full responsibility" blah.

@M.A.R. We should write some new questions that will generate professionally sound answers rooted in standard syntactic tests which can then become canonical close targets for a bunch of these perpetual confusions over lexical-vs-syntactic categories. Basically anything that involves "used at BLAH" leads to problems and contradictions with many misunderstandings and endless arguments, so we should provide solid canonicals for these (beatification optional).

@Cerberus It's a very old one, and it's what they normally add to over-the-counter cocktail medications to call them "Blah PM" versions where the PM bit is their way of telling you that they make you sleep more.

If he wants them Senate-approved instead of acting-blah, yes.

Also sprinkled about the talk "{some random observation} ... which I was the first one to fore see in my book blah blah .."

I mistrust how often people reach for the "oh this is ellipsis because they deleted BLAH" explanation of things.

no matter BLAH, let alone BLAH

"I am both honored and humbled to accept this... blah balha blah... so many nameless people who watched along the way... without whom of which my work would have been completed in half the time..."

@Mitch blah blah saying that amen milk isn't milk and whipped out a tit

Blah is always something bad.

Crap, most of the Spotify ads seem to assume I'm in some sort of relationship. I just got to hear the "as a new parent…" blah blah blah 55 more seconds about diseases that I can never remember to skip

@Robusto With respect to croissants I am vaguely aware that they were invented by some guy in Vienna in the 1700's and something something the Ottoman Empire somethety something Islam blah blah blah crescent moon. And so they were called crescents (because they are shaped like crescents, or even better were shaped like that to enrage/entice Muslim soldiers when people ate a religious symbol.

@Mitch Blah blah blah, but it seems to have arisen in 1880 in print. So I would guess it arose in the Civil War, which was all about firearms.

Iron Dome, blah blah.

Sounds very blah.

@user858770 blah blah blah

And then I can say at conversations at parties "Hey did you know that the start of the bass line in the Beatle's "I'm a Loser" starts on A flat and not A as you would expect from blah de blah blah"

Four score and seven... blah blah blha ... Amen Doctor?

Unrelated: This question asks for a word or phrase that can substitute for some missing items at the beginning of a list: english.stackexchange.com/questions/277198/…

So three kinds of cookies, blah blah blah.

@FaheemMitha bah, it's eeeasy. Consequentialism blah blah informal fallacy blah blah labels more labels. And the rest is 'navel-gazing' if you want to be provocative and 'promising in a century or two' if you wanna be hopeful

But someone says to another "blah blah blah seldom bla ablah balh"

So we kinda already have all sorts of herbal supplements rife with cheap antioxidants that are marketed as preventing cancer or autoimmune diseases blah blah blah

Blah.

@Cerberus Yeah. something something Nicola Sturgeon bal blah seriously consider.... somethety next steps on

"baruch something something adonai blah blah let's eat"

But also "The British Royal family blah blah something really really weird that has no consequences to anything whatsoever"

"Japan blah blah something really really weird that has no consequences to anything whatsoever"

@M.A.R. "Israel blah blah did something mean to the Palestinians"

it's "defense minister" this and "productivity blah blah unemployment rate" that

@Mitch That's something I've idly wondered for some time. We tell people, and they like to hear, that it's a democracy blah blah. And when it is, a significant portion of the masses is always easily swayed and manipulated.

All I read is "@Mitch blah lbhla blhlab lhalbh lahblahl bl"

> Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also “send” requests for web pages. And when you think about it, calling a method on an object is like sending a message to an object! It’s the same thing again! Those are all sending operations, so our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction called messaging, but now it’s getting really vague and nobody really knows what they’re talking about any more. Blah.

> [blah blah] On August 28, the Government of Puerto Rico revised the official death toll to be 4,645 people.

I don't know what happened yesterday that blew this one up. 100 degrees blah blah but still.

The blah receptors being blocked or increasing, I dunno, didn't pay much attention

I know the tongue twister about weathering blah blah

@Jasper The launch of SpaceX Crew Dragon was important, not because of the horseshit blah blah American soil blah blha kiss the flag blah blah , because it showed how successful integration between independent private contractors and NASA (and the international space community) can be.

When we moved I got rid of all my vinyl. Like 1200 albums. Because, you know, digital is better. Even the schmucks who know that still want to pay $4,000 for a McIntosh tube amp and $8,000 for a Thorens turntable with a Rabco tone arm and blah blah blah. Fuck 'em. There are only a few cases where I can't find digital recordings of things I want.

Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen blah blah.

As the guy in the video sums it up, "You have to make the commitment to provide healthcare for everybody." That is where the US falls woefully short. And it does so because rich people in the US don't want to pay more taxes, and have convinced enough of the populace (through so-called "news organizations" like Fox) that white, lower-middle-class citizens will be forced to pay for black women to have dozens of babies and blah blah blah.

I actually see "discuss how blah blah" often enough in typical exercises in books, but "discuss", yeah, SNL, that figures.

So yeah. Likewise if you'd never seen the word "noun" before and see the phrase "noun adjuncts are formed by blah", then you could wonder "what is a noun?" or you could wonder "what is noun?" and both would be equally fine, and the latter probably even more likely.

Blah blah blah blood concentrations arise by 30 percent blah blah blah mice dead blah blah blah

@M.A.R. Hmm, that's not quite the same though. That's usually a closed pair than an open series. With that having been said, I suppose I'm just spouting out a bunch of blah blah. :-P

One of my pet peeves on ELU is the question that really turns out to be 'blah bl h blah how do I deal with my girlfriend bla balb'...

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Look man, I don't listen to the news, I just hear it in the background: blah blah blha Huawei blah blah secret sex slave blah blah roses and lilacs blah blah win a trip to blah blah your mother-in-law blah blah

blah