Thread: My bad - English?

Have to agree with you, although Shakespeare used it in Sonnet 112. Still it is annoying.

Big Shed, you aren't an old phart at all, I'm 32 and I think 'my bad' is a disgrace. About time our education system and teenagers got a kick in the pants. Scary these people will be running our country one day.

Looks like I'll have to get a life because I am afraid I have never heard the expression but I don't like it anyway.

The one word that really annoys me is the expression "Absolutely" that people say to confirm something.

Originally Posted by Pat

Have to agree with you, although Shakespeare used it in Sonnet 112. Still it is annoying.

What did Shakespeare know about good old Australian English anyway. Now there is an Old Phart if ever there was one.

And where did we get

cobber

sheila

strewth

All just popular language, some stays, some goes.

Guys, you are going to have to learn to live with it. English is a dynamic and growing language. It changes over the years sometime quite dramatically. Live with it or it will die

how about BUT I will meet you but....so what does but mean
les

Originally Posted by Big Shed

The expression "my bad" seems to be increasingly used these days, inclusing here on the forum.

Call me an old phart/fuddy duddy, but I think it is a particularly bad way to butcher the English language.

I went to the trouble of Googling (now there is a new verb!) and found this explanation as to its' origins.

Do you find this as annoying as I do, or do you think it is good English (it can't be, it is an Americanism)

BTW My grandson uses it all the time and when I pick him up on it he calls me an old phart

Have told his mother (my daughter) that she is wasting $10k a year on school fees!

Big shed, its the word inclusing that sends me

People insist in progressing the English language but. Which, going forward, means we'll all get used to it, eventually, like.

/me runs

Originally Posted by jow104

Big shed, its the word inclusing that sends me

Sorry jow104, "my bad"

DO wish youse would get off of 'my' SOAPBOX.

TXT MSGNG on here is the one which gets my eyre.


Oh!!
I was going to type Ewes and not youse

They both Peeve me something badly;
and it is not an AGE thing.

One on the BMW forum gives anyone a serve about it,
he's 23

I don't like it either, I prefer to say "oops, my up."

I first heard "My bad" (several times) on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and rather liked it. The fact that it was being said by Sarah Michelle Geller may have had something to do with that.

I use it occasionally, especially when I do something really dumb.

Language butchery-wise, its nowhere near as bad as the way Americans say the year - "Two-thousand-eight" rather than "Two thousand and eight"...that bugs me no end.

I'm like, soooo over it, don't go there.