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J.C. Scott
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:00 am
Post subject: "My Bad" |
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I've heard people use the stupid phrase "my bad" off and on for a couple of
years now. This couldn't possibly be considered correct grammar could it?
Grammatically speaking, what's wrong with using it?
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ray o'hara
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:00 am
Post subject: Re: "My Bad" |
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"J.C. Scott" <jacysco2t@wt.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I've heard people use the stupid phrase "my bad" off and on for a couple
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years now. This couldn't possibly be considered correct grammar could it?
Grammatically speaking, what's wrong with using it?
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It's meant to be funny. I first heard it by the unfunny frostback comedian
Mike Meyers.{although not to the level of Louis Anderson unfunny, lets just
say Chris Farley unfunny}. |
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Roderick Stewart
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:00 am
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In article <TdrWe.92355$j34.21315@fe07.news.easynews.com>, J.C. Scott wrote:
| Quote: | I've heard people use the stupid phrase "my bad" off and on for a couple of
years now. This couldn't possibly be considered correct grammar could it?
Grammatically speaking, what's wrong with using it?
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If enough people use it for long enough, then eventually it will be considered
correct grammar. In the meantime, it's merely irritating.
Rod.
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Robert Lieblich
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:38 pm
Post subject: Re: "My Bad" |
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Roderick Stewart wrote:
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In article <TdrWe.92355$j34.21315@fe07.news.easynews.com>, J.C. Scott wrote:
I've heard people use the stupid phrase "my bad" off and on for a couple of
years now. This couldn't possibly be considered correct grammar could it?
Grammatically speaking, what's wrong with using it?
If enough people use it for long enough, then eventually it will be considered
correct grammar. In the meantime, it's merely irritating.
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Irritating or not is a matter of taste. As a matter of grammar, it's
defensible as an adjective substantive (look it up) or as an elision
of the noun being modified by the adjective "bad." -- "Which spade did
you play?" "My highest."
Grammar aside, it's an idiom. It doesn't have to be grammatical. And
it seems to fit a need.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Bob Lieblich
My good |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:18 pm
Post subject: Re: "My Bad" |
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Robert Lieblich wrote:
| Quote: | Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article <TdrWe.92355$j34.21315@fe07.news.easynews.com>, J.C. Scott wrote:
I've heard people use the stupid phrase "my bad" off and on for a couple of
years now. This couldn't possibly be considered correct grammar could it?
Grammatically speaking, what's wrong with using it?
If enough people use it for long enough, then eventually it will be considered
correct grammar. In the meantime, it's merely irritating.
Irritating or not is a matter of taste. As a matter of grammar, it's
defensible as an adjective substantive (look it up) or as an elision
of the noun being modified by the adjective "bad." -- "Which spade did
you play?" "My highest."
Grammar aside, it's an idiom. It doesn't have to be grammatical. And
it seems to fit a need.
I like to think of it as a clipped form of "Am I bad!". "Am I Bad!" |
exactly fits the meaning that people who use the expression intend.
Gary |
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Daniel James
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:13 pm
Post subject: Re: "My Bad" |
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In article news:<432AA09D.F4637EB0@verizon.net>, Robert Lieblich wrote:
| Quote: | Grammar aside, it's an idiom. It doesn't have to be grammatical.
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All this is true ... though it need not discourage us from despising it,
should we wish to do so.
| Quote: | And it seems to fit a need.
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No, "my error", "my mistake", and especially "my fault" are all better
established and less unlovely; so the need seems to have been met long ago.
"My bad" seems purely gratuitous coinage (not that there's anything wrong
with that).
Cheers,
Daniel. |
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