Yatter according to Merriam-Webster means (as a noun) idle talk or chatter and (as a verb) to make idle chatter or prattle.
I don't like idle talk as I like to make my point in as few words as possible. But no matter how well I am at being concise, my mouth doesn't always follow my brain's directions so sometimes I say things that are outside the point I'm making - frivolous bits that just appear and I can't control them. But yatters are fillers and I need them, that is, we need them. They fill in the spaces in between points. They give a break in conversation. Since no one pre-writes what they say, they can't edit out the yatter but I guess if you're a habitual, concise talker, you can.
Do you yatter much? Are you a concise talker?
For tomorrow, the letter Z, the last letter, the choices are (1) zippy, (2) zoo, (3) zine. Choose which word I might ramble about.
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I can yatter with the best of them if I feel like doing so. But I can also be quite brutally concise. For my final vote, I choose "zine."
ReplyDeleteDebra: I guess yuo are better at conversations than I am. Brutally concise can be good sometimes.
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I'm choosing Zou for tomorrow.
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I need to feel safe in an environment to talk,
and if there's interest,
I might talk a lot!
Katerina: I'm the same, if there's no interest, what can you say?
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Jamie (jannghi.blogspot.com): I tend not to yatter.
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Jamie: Me too, the less yatter the better.
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I am not a yatterer. (Is that a word?) But I do like the word itself. :D
ReplyDeleteLark: We can make it a word - yatterer.
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Yatter is a wonderful word! No, I'm not really one to yatter, myself.
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Samantha Bryant: Yatter is a wonderful word.
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Yatter is a word we don't have - though we do have yattterers.
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Elephant's Child: Yattterers? Sounds almost the same.
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I’m a yatterer, for sure, in casual conversation.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: That's not a bad thing.
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I like to be concise. Zoo might be a fun word to explore -Christine cmlk79.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteChristine: Being concise is good.
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Sometimes I worry that yattering is what I do when making comments on blog posts of which I know little about or feel unqualified to comment on.
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I do yatter...even on blog posts, where I could edit (I mean, I try to edit, but most of the times, there's only so much I'm able to let out).
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DeleteRoberta: I also too try to edit myself in my blog posts but I usually end up with a longer post. But yes, there is only so much you can do when editing.
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Hubby thinks I yatter too much....LOL!
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