My bad - English?

The expression "my bad" seems to be increasingly used these days, including 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:wink:

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Pat

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

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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

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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:wink:

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

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Big shed, its the word inclusing that sends me:D

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

/me runs :)

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Originally Posted by jow104

Big shed, its the word inclusing that sends me:D

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Sorry jow104, "my bad":D

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

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


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 :censored2: up." :D

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. :D

fully sic, not. :D

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I don't like it either, I prefer to say "oops, my :censored2: up." :D

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Cliff, the kids at school prefer your option, however most have worked out that "my bad" gets them in less trouble.

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Originally Posted by Big Shed

Do you find this as annoying as I do,

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:yes: , also pings me off when people say or write omg, which I find very offensive.

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

fully sic, not. :D

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So Cliff did you spew up or not? :?


:D

OMG, u guys suk. my bad is a mad sayin. i use it al the time.

its a good short phrase that says: i know i'm wrong and i admit it.

thats 2 words compared to 8. were lazy;)

YOUR MUM !!

get with it yar old farrttss:D

Spirit

your mama jokes are so last year:D

thats what she said:q

oooooh...BURN:o

Snap

are we playing cards now:? :cool:

can we play texas hold em next. i'll see ur bandsaw and raise u a tablesaw :D ( just kidding, playing with chips is so much more relaxing and risk free lol )

:hmm: i hate that phrase "lol" yet i still use it. no one actually laughs when they write that:(

I think Australians had the saying long before anyone else. They have adapted it from " My blue" which has been used for longer than 35 years that I can remember.:wink::D

my bad shoulder?:?:doh:

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" My blue"

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:whistle: "Me and and you and a dog named Blue"

:doh: my bad. :D :doh: wrong whistle whatsit, my mistake I'm sorry.

I would like to invite you to the Friday thread tomorrow.:D

Don't like it but I must be living in the same hole as Bazza as I haven't heard it. I used all this temporary slang rubbish when I was young and I'm sure it was as annoying to adults then as it certainly is to me now.

My children will be banned from using any terminology I find annoying in my presence.:~ In fact I'm thinking of leasing them out for their teenage years as they may not survive if they stay.:no:

Only thing worse than younguns using this tripe is people over twenty using it in a forlorn attempt to be "with it"

HH.

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Originally Posted by HappyHammer

Only thing worse than younguns using this tripe is people over twenty using it in a forlorn attempt to be "with it"
HH.

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:2tsup:

It's bad English no matter how popular it is because "bad" as a noun is uncountable. You can't say "this is a bad", so you likewise can't say "that was my bad", which is what "my bad" is a contraction of.

"Mistake", on the other hand, is countable, so you can say "this is a mistake", "this is my mistake", "my mistake".

Stupid Americans....

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Originally Posted by silentC

It's bad English no matter

Stupid Americans....

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Oh!! Dear me!

Watchout for Incoming:oo::o

'My blue' sounds better than 'my bad' :2tsup:

That's 'cause 'blue' in that sense is a countable noun, like 'mistake'. :p

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Watchout for Incoming

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I'm quaking in my boots! :wink:

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Originally Posted by silentC

I'm quaking in my boots! :wink:

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So you are being quaked??????

Told you:p
The Quakers are American:;

Irritating teenage language comes and goes.
When i was young (ger) everything was GROUSE.
surfboards got dinged, cars got pranged.

Some comes to stay, most goes, like zap, pow and wham.
Or Heebie jeebies, spiffing for goodness sakes.
as someone already pointed out, english and strine are living languages.

Once it was considered the 20th centuary equivelent of "valley" or "Essex" girl to say perfume, not scent or mirror instead of looking glass.

this is archaic and I dont think anyone except Countess Von Astrid would disagree.

Astrid
:)

Yes, you're an anachronism :D:D:D

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Originally Posted by HappyHammer

I used all this temporary slang rubbish when I was young and I'm sure it was as annoying to adults then as it certainly is to me now.

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...as it was and is meant to be.:D