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The class of onomatopoeic and reduplicative terms for spoken language is large : blather, buzz-buzz, chitchat, fiddle-faddle, jibber-jabber, yakety-yak, yuk-yuk . The earliest appearances of something resembling yadda yadda yadda in print derive from its use in sound-symbolic fashion, as in this exchange from a short story (about anthropomorphic ducks) appearing in a 1949 issue of the Saturday Evening Post :
ET/PT)--are chided for their now formulaic depictions of twentysomething lifestyles, replete with tired pop culture references and "blather ...
' Adding to the pile of verbal garbage is balderdash, which reaches back to the late 16th century and originally meant a `hodgepodge of liquors, such as wine mixed with beer,' perfect for washing down a mishmash of pretentious and frivolous blather.
Contrast this with the pundits, who set new records yesterday for quantity and speedy delivery of blather.
One piece of real news would eat all this [blather] up like kudzu."
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