"My Bad" and other lazy expressions

JimVT | 02/10/03 | JImVT

[JimVT]

It seems we have unleashed yet another bit of bastardized English; this one is "my bad".

[GOPyouth]

put it in a lockbox, partna..

[secret garden]

I'm just saying, which is another way of saying I want to make this point but don't want to be held accountable. And when did misspoke permanently replace lie? During the clinton nightmare.

[canyon]

I guess I should have written "drivezz me crazy".

[afraidfortherepublic]

Dear old timers -

Watch it, Buster...

[Under the Radar]

Hmmm, I seem to remember hearing the phrase "my bad" first in the movie "Clueless." According to the IMDB, that was in 1995. Seems to me this phrase may be indelibly imprinted into our collective culture.

[Dan from Michigan]

"For the children"
"Bi-partisan"
"unilateral"
"Don't go there"
"Whatever"
"Racist"
"Discrimination"
And last but not least

GUN-VIOLENCE

[dighton]

“I am sick and tired of the word ****. If I ever hear the ******* word again I’m going to throw up.”

-- Ernie Pyle.

[GOPyouth]

**** that

[shhrubbery!]

Actually, "yada" is ancient Hebrew. It means: "to know." Jerry is actually saying: "I know, I know, I know! (Enough already!).

By google, you're right! Did a search to confirm it. Well now I have more respect for the word, but I STILL hate it when I hear people say it ten times a day.

[DannyTN]

"no doubt, futile, plea to use the language the way it was meant to be used with simple, declarative sentences and a minimum of jargon"

My last English professor made the point that language changes over time. Todays English is not the English spoken 100 years ago or that of Shakespear's day and certainly not the English of 400-500 years ago.

What is important is not the rigid adherence to a fixed set of grammatical rules, but rather that people communicate well.

For once I made an A in English college course. And that, after having grown up in Louisiana, home of America's illiterate in two languages.

So yes, it's a futile plea, get over it, and if I was too blunt, then "My bad".

[Red Boots]

One of my son's karate teachers had a habit of greeting his students with "whassup ?". My son, being the honest speaker that he is, was unsure how to respond. His sister suggested that he reply, "The ceiling", which he did. End of problem.

[archy]

...I've been lurking all over the FR today and find increasing use of the phrase "my bad" and was wondering what the hell people are talking about when they use it.

I consider it the approximate analogue to the expression *Good on ya"* that's been with me for years, indicating approval or a *well done*, probably of Australian origins.

But I can recall the phrase as being in use, if not quite as used at present, as late as the mid -late 1970s in certain circles.

-archy-/-

[Under the Radar]

You are correct as far as American English goes. But doesn't British English follow different rules?

[WIladyconservative]

(Jumping up and down waving hand in the air!!!) You mean I can vent my all time nasty of lazy speech? Cool!

If I hear one more semi-almost-really-truly-educated person say A WHOLE NOTHER something or other, I'm going to run into the night screaming and flailing. IT'S ANOTHER WHOLE something. There is no word such as NOTHER, not to mention a whole nother, or even a half nother!

(deep breath)Okay, I'm calmer now. Now watch any news program or tv show or listen to the radio and notice how often people use it.
It drives me BONKERS!!

[lorrainer]

Please add "BASICALLY" to your list! If there ever was an extraneous, overused term in today's lexicon, this is it. I even hear foreign diplomats working it into their conversation when they're being interviewed. YUCK!

[CyberCowboy777]

I hate:

"It's in your/his/her ball court"

"It's in your/his/her court"

[spectre]

It drives me BONKERS!

Is that right?

I heard that!

sw

[ru4liberty]

Yes, UtR, you're correct. The Brits have different rules concerning the usage of commas and periods in conjuction with quotation marks. But then, they spell "labour" and "centre" funny too! ;-)

[CyberCowboy777]

"Step off!"