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"My Bad" and other lazy expressions
JimVT | 02/10/03 | JImVT

Posted on 02/10/2003 2:15:36 PM PST by JimVT

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


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To: JimVT
Don't worry "it's all good"
61 posted on 02/10/2003 2:41:36 PM PST by showme_the_Glory
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To: coloradan
My bad ===> I get

Whazzup with, "series" and "are belong to"?

Somebody give me some juicy links so I can get caught up on this. Thanks.
62 posted on 02/10/2003 2:42:11 PM PST by LayoutGuru2
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To: JimVT
Probably shouldn't start a Post with "Forgive the Vanity"

Go Figure.

63 posted on 02/10/2003 2:42:31 PM PST by Pompah
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To: JimVT
Yo, Jim - wassup? At the end of the day, there aren't many phrases that really get to me (that's one of them) but I am definitely going postal on the next sumbitch who answers a courteous "thank you" with the illiterate, adolescent locution "no problem." Do you see what I'm sayin'?
64 posted on 02/10/2003 2:42:46 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: JimVT
"My bad" as an expression comes from baseball, specifically the game of "catch". Two people are playing catch. One of them makes a bad throw. The other person has to turn around and chase down the ball. The person who threw it will say "My bad" by way of apology. What is good about this expression is its succinctness, ideal for informal setting such as a game of catch, when it is nevertheless necessary to establish quickly who it was who screwed up.

65 posted on 02/10/2003 2:43:25 PM PST by babble-on (Please accept my apologies for the fact that I short-hopped the ball to you, friend.)
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To: JimVT
My all-time most hated: "Yo"
66 posted on 02/10/2003 2:43:57 PM PST by P.O.E. (Liberate Iraq!)
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To: JimVT
"back in the day" always scratches me wrong, especially when uttered by a young person.

Back in the day? How many days have you had?

67 posted on 02/10/2003 2:44:00 PM PST by Cable225
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To: JimVT
Another lazy expression is used reflexively by the news media without ever blinking.

Jump-Start the economy

or its cousin, "KICK-start" the economy.

Michael

68 posted on 02/10/2003 2:45:22 PM PST by Wright is right!
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To: P.O.E.
I can't stand graduated high school/college.
69 posted on 02/10/2003 2:45:47 PM PST by 2right
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To: cowtowney
paradigm

Pronounced "paradigum".

70 posted on 02/10/2003 2:45:59 PM PST by tacticalogic (Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.)
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To: JimVT
I think that phrase 'my bad' is bastardized from the phrase 'my gaffe'.
71 posted on 02/10/2003 2:46:31 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: babble-on
Please accept my apologies for the fact that I short-hopped the ball to you, friend

I would simply say, "My fault."

73 posted on 02/10/2003 2:47:53 PM PST by 11th Earl of Mar
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To: showme_the_Glory
I'm witcha, Man!!
74 posted on 02/10/2003 2:48:14 PM PST by misanthrope
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To: John H K
It means exactly the same thing as "at this time"

Which means, now.
I dislike "final destination."

75 posted on 02/10/2003 2:48:20 PM PST by j_tull (My words but a whisper, your deafness a SHOUT!)
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To: JimVT
“My bad” was one of those things said on the playing field. Miss a grounder? “My bad”. Screw up a block? “My bad”. Caught sleeping and picked off at first? “My bad!”

Now, it has moved to business. Put the wrong cover on the TPS report? “My Bad!”

It's just the jock in all of us. Uh, that didn't sound right. "My Bad!"

76 posted on 02/10/2003 2:49:14 PM PST by TankerKC (Analyzing Iraq requires intellectual work, spouting off about the US requires only attitude.)
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To: JimVT
Since you're having such a slow day, this might be a good time to talk about punctuation in conjuction with quotation marks...


QUOTATION MARKS

Rule 1. Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes.

Examples The sign changed from "Walk," to "Don’t Walk," to "Walk" again within 30 seconds.
She said, "Hurry up."
She said, "He said, ‘Hurry up.’"

More here

77 posted on 02/10/2003 2:49:20 PM PST by ru4liberty (2 Chronicles 7:14—If my people...shall humble themselves...then will I...heal their land)
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To: JimVT
You be axing for a flame out, ain't ya! Slang expressions are often grammatically incorrect, accept it. What about "Cowabunga, Dude"?! what does "lickety split" mean?
Concentrate instead on the idiotic office/business lingo, on the illiteracy of those who don't know the difference between "its" and "it's", "your" and "you're", etc. But slang, leave it alone, it's fun!
78 posted on 02/10/2003 2:50:15 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Someone left the cake out in the rain I dont think that I can take it coz it took so long to bake it)
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To: John H K
Jim VT: My recollection is that the phrase "at this point in time" and "at that point in time" became national catchphrases during the Watergate Hearings. I don't recall who said it first, but it was either Ehrlichmann or Haldeman who kept saying that phrase in answer to questions. It quickly became a catchphrase. That also saw the birth of the famous phrase "what did he know and when did he know it" which has since been revived numerous times in Congressional hearings and the like. I think it was first said by the Tenessee Senator whose name I regret just slipped my mind. Sorry to revive the Watergate stuff for all you die-hards, but that to the best of my recollection is where all this "at this point in time" stuff took off. If I am incorrect, then my bad. You dig? BTW, since I lead a sheltered life away from the ghetto and hip hop parties, can someone tell ME where the new phrase "props" comes from? I think it is some sort of congratulatory phrase but apart from it being the name of furniture and fake telephones on stage sets, I don't know why people keep saying "props to my homeboy". I am just really out of it!!
79 posted on 02/10/2003 2:51:24 PM PST by UncleSamUSA
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To: JimVT
I love seeing shamrocks!

You a Paddy? (Real or plastic? *L*)
80 posted on 02/10/2003 2:51:36 PM PST by Happygal
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