Not to be a grouch or an oldie, but these days, I am incredulously finding the vocabulary of our vocabulary to consist of inane fillers like ’blah blah’ or ‘whatever’. I admit, I use these phrases sometimes as a gap filler too, but never so much that it gets jarring!
Why, as I was walking down the road today, I overheard two girls go “…so, he came to me and said “Let’s go for coffee, blah blah blah and I told him to…” Why did she have to speak like that? Or even the American variant that goes “so you should like check him out on facebook or like whatever!”
Do we really have such short attention spans that we are unable to remember what exactly happened during some particular incident that we are telling our friends? Maybe that’s why we have to come up with continuation phrases like ‘blah blah’. Or maybe, we are just too lazy to speak out complete sentences!
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