Re: A proper FAQ - Wish fulfillment

Pablo Sanchez wrote:

> "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

Must be because I've never heard it.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Mar 11 2003 - 10:53:34 CST