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Yada yada… Scientists name new virus after Seinfeld catchphrase

Yada yada… Scientists name new virus after Seinfeld catchphrase

4 years ago
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/yada-yada-scientists-name-new-virus-after-seinfeld-catchphrase

How do you tell the world that your discovery of a new virus isn’t that big a deal? Simple: You name it “Yada yada,” the catchphrase made famous in a 1997 Seinfeld episode.

Yada yada means “boring or empty talk,” according to the Merrian-Webster dictionary, which notes that the phrase is “often used interjectionally, especially in recounting words regarded as too dull or predictable to be worth repeating.”