Pälä-pälä-pälä in Finnish.
ä marks the sound marked with "a" in "cat".
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Huh. Sounds a lot like Japanese ペラペラ (perapera) which is used to denote incessant talking/blabbering (but also fluently talking in another language).
Or "plaa-plaa-plaa"
bla bla bla (german)
🤌🤌🤌 in ISL (Italian sign language).
'bla-bla-bla' (French).
More spelling are available: 'blabla', 'bla-bla', 'bla-bla-bla'.
Blablabla (french) or sometimes "et blablabli et blablabla" (south-east at least)
English here. One of the few things I remember from my French lessons was a comic where one character said it «... et patati, et patata.»
I forget where in France that was supposed to be. We'd moved on from the Tricolor books set in La Rochelle (west coast) at that point, I think, but it might still have been there.
Oh yes, "et patati et patata" is pretty common too!
That sounds like a cognate of the (American) English usage “potato, potato” (but pronounced poh-TAY-toe, poh-TAH-toe) to indicate the lack of distinction between two items that have been presented as different.
It's more likely cognate with the word "patter", or at the very least, a parallel development from the same underlying onomatopoeia. Nothing to do with spuds.
The emphasis is on the last syllable of each, "e-pata-TI, e-pata-TA".
We definitely say that too
"da da da" in Spanish.
In the region of Mexico where I come from we sometimes say "habla/dice puro takataka"
Love it
Ooh.. Spain? Or where in latam?
It was a Mexican professor who once corrected one of my former classmates.
Blá blá blá, blábláblá, and other variations in Portuguese
noop; noop; noop;
In french it's "hon hon hon blah blah blah hon hon"
in spanish it's just bla bla bla
Wow so bla bla bla is fairly universal
"bilmem ne bilmem ne", "dı dı" in turkish
bla bla bla (English)
GenX:
Whatever, man.
Pam param, pam param