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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ross Clark Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Blah Blah Blah Day (17 April) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:37:00 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 06:37:06 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dd2366d94e945940e5e83d3a7eb15291"; logging-data="2196818"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/BbpW20xH/BnyBw931oRK/MX8gAyIt+mg=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4ELKUG2AWhVkQ5gSfDSPQ7X54IA= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Bytes: 1877 What I learned: - "blah" is barely 100 years old (orig. U.S.) - first attestation (as noun) 1918, first triple-bla 1924. - I thought at first this might be a day in honour of an Iggy Pop song (and album, 1986). But...jeez, there are a lot of songs by that name - one by Gershwin even! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blah_(disambiguation) - I would have spelled it "bla (bla (bla))". The French seem to agree: BLA-BLA or BLA-BLA-BLA 'Verbiage' (Larousse) Oh! The day? "...the aim of this day is to increase meaningful communication, to appreciate the value of everyday conversation, and to foster achievement." (Huh???) "It was created in 2006 by Ruth and Thomas Roy of Wellcat Holidays and Herbs with a very positive set of intentions." Enough. Oh, it's also International Haiku Poetry Day (Crystal).