Today I was in the car coming home from Trader Joe’s and talking to Yosef on the “celly”. I was telling him an anecdote about my lunch date with a friend, and was being very expressive:
Me: So we said how people can have destructive habits, but that they have the power to break those habits, blah, blah, blah…
Dina: (sweetly, from the back seat) Mommy, what is “blah blah blah”?
Me: Oh…hang on Yosef. (to Dina) It’s what Mommy says when she means that everything else she would say just kind of goes with the general theme of what she already said, and she doesn’t want to bore Daddy anymore.
Dina: Oh. Okay.
Me: (to Yosef) Okay, sorry.
Yosef: (V.O., on the phone) Awesome.
Moral: Your two-year-old is listening. And she knows that “blah blah blah” isn’t a real linguistic phrase.
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Dina, tell Mommy to teach you actual language skills before short cuts. I demand that my nieces destroy and recreate the English language by the time they get their adult teeth.
Linguistic tricks and contractions are for adults only.
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