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1 Spanish
2 Use as an interjection?
3 Humanspeak?
4 Blah and vampires
5 Removal of prod
6 Transfer section into discussion
7 Worldwide view

[edit] Spanish

From the article:

It has been suggested ^{[citation needed]} that the word originates from the Spanish verb hablar, which means "to talk". When hablar is conjugated to the imperfect tense, it becomes hablaba, hablabas, hablabamos, hablabais, and hablaban.

That doesn't make any sense. I'm removing it. – Andyluciano 18:55, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

NOOOOOOOOOO! DONT REMOVE IT!- 12hernn 00:39, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually it's conjugated hablo hablas habla hablamos and hablan GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! 68.97.64.36 17:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

hablo, hablas, etc. is the PRESENT tense. hablaba, hablabas, etc. is the correct IMPERFECT tense, as said before. Explodingpig 18:35, 13 February 2007

That does make sense: in fact the reason I looked this up was because I came up with that very theory! Listen, if some one were to say "he speaks, he speaks, he speaks" is spanish (which is the essential meaning of blah blah blah) it would be spoken: "habla habla habla" which sounds almost exactly the same as "blah blah blah!" Vyroglyph 03:24, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Whaddaya mean, "it doesn't make sense"? The reasoning is quite clear. Removing on such biased ground is not very community friendly. However, the "citation needed" tag was rightly placed, and we now know that this is "original research", so: out it must go. --Jerome Potts 05:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use as an interjection?

From the article:

BLLLAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!' - used to show anger instead of a curse!

I've never heard of anything like this. "Blah" makes a horrible interjection displaying anger - you want a fricative or ejective, not the boring sounds of "blah." The OED says it can be used an interjection showing derision, but that's not what's described here. I'm removing it. ^L_Wizard @ 06:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Bad idea, LizardWizard person. Even the Oxford English Dictionary can be wrong. Who knows? Wikipedia might have mistaken another interjection for blah. You can't be completely sure of anything, Mr. Magic Dinosore.

I heard Homer Simpson say BLLAAAAHHHH!!! to show his anger--Taida 19:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

homer simpson is hardly a reliable source. I agree to LizardWizard. ~ crazytales56297 -talk- 22:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I always thought it woz (psst, you spelled was wrong) just a way of saying I'm bored eg. when something is boring some people use the saying 'blah blah blah. Cut the chat this is doing my head in' it is also used by authours and script writers as a way of saying people talk to much! Luv ya all!!! --86.132.40.156 11:31, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Humanspeak?

I remember that in High School, I was taught that "blah blah" is merely the transcription of the way human vocalizations sound in a crowd. Cows go "moo moo", sheeps go "beh beh" and humans basically go "blah blah". Can anyone verify this (or, at least, has anyone ever heard this theory before)? MIP 21:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blah and vampires

Might be a silly subject, but have noticed blah associated with vampires at least in the US. I'm not sure where this came from exactly but its definitly there.

One theory someone had was that the old Seaseme Street show had The Count, a vampire character who would often count and do simple addition or subtraction with bats and other vamipre associated objects to teach numbers to children. He often would exclaim Blah! Blah! This was perhaps because they thought saying Blood! Blood! was inappropriate for children. Imagine if he had said "I want to suck your blah!" :)

Thought I should put that thought out there to see if anyone else had any comments on the subject.

Also, about a year ago I created this page because was wanting a place to refer people when they asked what blah meant due to my habbit of using it in online chat alot. Was my first article creation (sorry realize now I should have put it on wiktionary) and was amazed that within a short time it had been cleaned up and has become a very handy article, thanks alot to those who voted to keep it.

>> (reply): I think that the sound Vampires made when attacking in Heroes II or some Might&Magic was similar to 'Blah'.

Izapuff 07:47, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of prod

I've removed the prod because this article is at least sufficient on its own to warrant greater discussion; further, it was previously nominated for AFD, and the wiktionary page isn't nearly as comprehensive in its treatment of the subject. If you do want this article deleted, please create another AFD request for it instead. Mind matrix 16:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Transfer section into discussion

That one section with the really long name about the person who wrote this being a dork and a loser doesn't belong in the actual article it belongs in the discussion page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.195.133.53 (talk) 22:38, 21 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Worldwide view

I added {{Worldwide}} because I don't know whether these uses are confined to American English — someone needs to double check and write which ones are American- (or American- and Canadian-, etc.) only. — $\sim$ Lenoxus " * " 23:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)