I was told that I use blah blah too much. I was like, "Blah?" I really don't think I use it that much, but I have started keeping tabs on my use of blah. I caught myself today when I was explaining something to a fellow co-worker. I was trying to make my point and she basically knew what I was talking about and so there was no need to go into the whole thing all over again, so I blah blahed a bit and then got to the point. I said to myself, "Hey, you just blah blahed a whole bunch." I replied to myself, "Well I had to. I didn't want to go into the whole thing. It didn't make sense. We all knew what I was talking about."
I think I use blah blah because it gets me to where I'm going. I don't want to go into long winded examples of this or that. If I know the person(s) gets the gist, but I just want to reiterate a really important thing than I just blah blah my way into the important thing. I don't know if this makes much sense, but well that's how it is.
Sometimes it's blah blah, and sometimes it's blah blah with whatever. For example, "It's all blah blah, whatever, and then we go into this part and blah blah, to the record keeping section. There we find the j drive......." Also, I blah blah as I move from visual step to another visual step. I don't think to blah blah my way when there isn't something visual to help guide my explanation.
Blah blah is a handy tool, but I can see where it can get annoying to some. I'll make no promises, but I'll try to cut down on it one blah blah at a time. Baby steps. :)
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Reminds of me Seinfeld's "Yada, yada, yada."
ReplyDeleteYep, I catch your drift.
It's a heck of a lot better than saying "like" and "whatever" a million times in a minute, that's for sure!
Casper, what do you think of the way people misuse the word "literally?" A lot of people seem to use it when they're trying to be emphatic, using it as if it has the same meaning as "really." For example, I heard someone say "that movie literally blew my mind." I usually jump right in and correct these people because I know how much people love to be corrected ;)
ReplyDeleteI think we use many fillers while we communicate, I personally think I need to use those fillers more when I talk. Unless it's excessive, I don't think it is unnessarily a bad thing to do..
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