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Getting Rid of ‘Meh’ Moments

We'll start with a short conversation:            “How’s your day been?       “Meh”       “What do you mean?”       “You know… Just ‘meh’”        “I’m not sure I follow…”       “Meh”      “It sounds like you’re saying nothing.”      “Exactly.” This word has formed part of my vocabulary for some time and has successfully satisfied when I’ve needed a description for a ‘nothing’ moment. When something is average or so-so or not-really-worth-going-into-detail-about. An alternative I’ve also used is Blah. “How’s life treating you?!”  “Blah.” I have recently discovered that ‘meh’ is in fact a real word. For so long I saw Meh as a sound more than a word. And yet whenever I’ve used it people have understood exactly what I meant. Imagine my surprise when Cambridge dictionary popped up among many other respected wo...