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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Blasé came from dialectical 17th c. French where it meant “to exhaust enjoyment of” or “be chronically hung over.” It seems to have come from M.Du. blazen, for “to blow up, swell”*. It’s used today to mean deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment, or to be nonchalant and unconcerned. Blahsay inject the blah feeling directly into the word. It’s hard to say whether the “say” syllable refers to speech (see also pure say). Some use blahsay where blah would suffice, and in those I think the “say” aspect plays a larger role.
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Come on! The conspiracy theories are just getting weak at this point… so blahsay!
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Don’t “hide” poor choices by playing lots of “so-so” blahsay notes.
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One of the things that irritates me more than anything is people who act as if having a child is just something that happens and act all blahsay about it.
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at 12 I think she has become a bit blahsee about the things I get up to lol.
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Somewhere between passe and blah-say and anywhere else
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to think everything will be alright and cosher – in a blah-say type of mood or that of … being INDIFFERENT.
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When you beat the game, you’re given a blah-say ending, which doesn’t quite wrap things up as it should.
* Those keen on etymology will be entranced by this where connections are made between blasé, bladder, blaze, blather, flare, inflate, flatulent, and soufflé.
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Nothing blasé about blahsay. Great eggcorn. Only wish I knew how to pronounce it. Is it BLAH-zey or blah-ZEY? Your friends at the local Couche-Tard would say blah-ZEY, Brits tend to say BLAH-zey. The rest of us are just confused.
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Oh, interesting difference in pronunciation. That would make the switch to “blah” easier in Britain. Your comment makes me think that I should have looked for the simpler transition to “blahsé”, which when you think about it is more interesting and difficult to get to than blahsay.
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Superficially, holding an audition seems like a simple event to plan (and after all the castings I’ve been to, I’m quite blahsé about them)
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