Y is for Yadda Yadda
OK, I know Seinfeld made it trendy and all, but I was using it before then. Also, I don't think I've ever seen a full episode of Seinfeld. Maybe on a plane (that's where I saw my one episode of Friends).
Yadda yadda (sometimes with just one 'd' in each yadda) is a lovely term, almost onomatopeic. It can be used as filler (like fubar, or the new derivatives, foo and bar), as a polite ribbing to someone to prevent repetition, or as a replacement for et cetera [1]. Most conversation, and certainly most blogs could easily be described as "yadda yadda", as in "Yadda yadda, look at me, I'm blogging now, yadda yadda, Sorry I haven't posted in a while, yadda yadda, Scoble says, 'yadda yadda'"
Today's exercise: Don't apologize if you haven't blogged in a while. No one cares (except about Scott and Christopher, they really need to blog more). Similarly, avoid repeating yourself, pointing to something that 5000 other people already have and yadda yadda.
[1] Today's rant. The abbreviation of et cetera is etc, NOT ect. Gah! Just read it, didn't everyone take three years of Latin in junior high school?
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