to not understand what 'Yada yada' means?

[sweetgilly]

Well. Please explain.

Sort of like, blah blah blah

It's an annoying Americanism that seems to have replaced "blah, blah". Don't use it, it's crap.

Actually, I think it might be Yiddish????

X-posts

and so on and so on...?

I first heard it from the lips of an Australian, and wondered if it was catching on here via soaps.

Yeah it is a Jewish thing which means blah blah blah

benelf

Thanks. I had sort of guessed it may of meant that.

Googled it: are you sure it's Jewish?. I can scrub my Aussie theory as wrong, but it seems to have been a US wartime neologism.

i only know yada yada yada from Seinfeld. you say it instead of telling the whole boring story, like last night i bumped into steve and yada yada yada we ended up back at his place.

its also japanese
its what small toddlers say
sort of like no-no-no-no-no whine - hence 'Im not listening'/ blah blah blah when its anglicised
Its amazing how much whinge can be put into it by a small child

It's from Seinfeld and took off from there.

The link I posted quotes material which antedates Seinfeld by a good 50 years.

I've never seen seinfeld - am sure it's been around since long before that.

Merriam-Webster has the origins thus:

"alteration of earlier yatata idle chatter, probably ultimately from British dialect and argot yatter-yatter to chatter, of imitative origin
First Known Use: 1980"

British, who knew?

reckon it's from yiddish/Hebrew 'yadat' - to know, and used as 'blah, blah. blah, 'and so on' etc.