Re: A proper FAQ - Wish fulfillment

From: Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_dev.null>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:39:14 -0600
Message-ID: <Xns933B580887757pingottpingottbah@216.166.71.233>

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in news:3e6dacd4$0$4849$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net:

> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:pan.2003.03.12.22.51.23.420905_at_yahoo.com.au...

>> Can I ask a cultural question??
>>
>> What does "my bad" actually mean?? Is it some Americanism of which I
>> was unaware? Meaning (one presumes) "My mistake"? And if you mean "my
>> mistake", why use "my bad", which uses an adjective when the rest of
>> the English-speaking peoples of the world would use a noun??

>
> I suppose it *could* be an Americanism, but I have never heard any
> American use it in speech, or seen it in print (and at a novel every
> couple of days or so I get through a lot of writing American and
> otherwise). It seems to be one of those curious constructions from
> email/the net where it seems to crop up frequently.

http://www.zenhaiku.com/archives/is_my_bad_bad.html

     "My bad" is yet another expression that white kids have borrowed
     from Black slang like "the bomb", and "phat" in an attempt to
     appear cool.

-- 
Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
http://www.hpdbe.com

Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 09:39:14 CST