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Language mimicry (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There is a joke in The Good Place like this. One of the characters is describing her life "abandoned by my parents" "adopted by parents who died, yadda, yadda, yadda" "saved the human race, yadda, yadda, yadda". She goes through a few of those and the penultimate thing she says is "learned english watching Seinfeld".

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean who doesn’t like a good “yada yada yada”. I feel like more people should do that; especially at work. 😏

[–] teft@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I feel like more people should use yiddish because they have some great words like shmootz and chutzpah and schlep. They just sound great and the meanings are wordy in english so a single word translation is great.

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You yada'd over the best part