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maix27 said:
i got picked up on this in a thread the other day.
I quite like it myself. It's quite expressive.
It's like saying 'I got something wrong' and 'sorry' at the same time.
It just sounds stupid when you hear an adult saying it, so please stopI quite like it myself. It's quite expressive.
It's like saying 'I got something wrong' and 'sorry' at the same time.
That is all.........
Edited by 360 detailing on Monday 6th October 11:51
360 detailing said:
Right, Where the f
k has this stupid stupid saying came from??
For example "oops sorry, my bad"
If you ever, ever use this then have a word with yourself, you sound like a right
Short rant, but I feel better now, thanks.
As you were....
If you dont like that you'd best cut out using the word Cool as well.k has this stupid stupid saying came from??For example "oops sorry, my bad"
If you ever, ever use this then have a word with yourself, you sound like a right
Short rant, but I feel better now, thanks.
As you were....
interwebnet said:
This slang term originated in about 1970. At that time, i.e. pre the widespread use of the Internet, slang terms often circulated at street level for many years before being adopted by anyone who felt inclined to write them down. That's clearly not the case any longer of course and any word or phrase that is widely known is dateable quite precisely via website logs.
The first citation in print is C. Wielgus and A. Wolff's, 'Back-in-your-face Guide to Pick-up Basketball', 1986:
"My bad, an expression of contrition uttered after making a bad pass or missing an opponent."
Shakespeare used the term with something like the current meaning, in his Sonnet 112:
Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
That's clearly just coincidence, and it's hardly surprising that such a fragmentary phrase would appear in a large body of work like Shakespeare's. It's also a world away from pick-up basketball, which is an informal street sport where players frequently call out to each other (trash talking), and is a well-known source of street lang.
'My bad' came into widespread popular use in the mid to late-1990s in the USA via the 1995 movie “Clueless”. This starred Alicia Silverstone and contains what seems to have been the first use of the phrase in the mainstream media. The 1994 'Green revision pages' for the movie script has a scene with Alicia Silverstone's character learning to drive:
"Cher swerves - to avoid killing a person on a bicycle. Cher: Whoops, my bad."
Although a street term, it is virtually synonymous with the earlier Latin phrase, 'mea culpa'. It doubtless has as little of a direct descent from this as it does from Shakespeare's Sonnet 112.
The first citation in print is C. Wielgus and A. Wolff's, 'Back-in-your-face Guide to Pick-up Basketball', 1986:
"My bad, an expression of contrition uttered after making a bad pass or missing an opponent."
Shakespeare used the term with something like the current meaning, in his Sonnet 112:
Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
That's clearly just coincidence, and it's hardly surprising that such a fragmentary phrase would appear in a large body of work like Shakespeare's. It's also a world away from pick-up basketball, which is an informal street sport where players frequently call out to each other (trash talking), and is a well-known source of street lang.
'My bad' came into widespread popular use in the mid to late-1990s in the USA via the 1995 movie “Clueless”. This starred Alicia Silverstone and contains what seems to have been the first use of the phrase in the mainstream media. The 1994 'Green revision pages' for the movie script has a scene with Alicia Silverstone's character learning to drive:
"Cher swerves - to avoid killing a person on a bicycle. Cher: Whoops, my bad."
Although a street term, it is virtually synonymous with the earlier Latin phrase, 'mea culpa'. It doubtless has as little of a direct descent from this as it does from Shakespeare's Sonnet 112.
okgo said:
Agreed, its terrible.
And its circulated something chronic amongst my mates probably because they are all students. And students come up with these stupid things that no normal person would say.
Yes, but it's expected from a student.And its circulated something chronic amongst my mates probably because they are all students. And students come up with these stupid things that no normal person would say.
"My bad" is now quite likely to come from the lips of a 40-something middle manager with a mid-Atlantic accent. In this context it's about as embarrassing as watching your Dad recreating a scene from You Got Served whilst drinking a Piña Colada.
maix27 said:
i got picked up on this in a thread the other day.
I quite like it myself. It's quite expressive.
It's like saying 'I got something wrong' and 'sorry' at the same time.
To you perhaps but to most English speaking people not in North America it sounds like words spoken by a baby.I quite like it myself. It's quite expressive.
It's like saying 'I got something wrong' and 'sorry' at the same time.
okgo said:
Agreed, its terrible.
And its circulated something chronic amongst my mates probably because they are all students. And students come up with these stupid things that no normal person would say.
there was only one guy at uni who used this phrase, and would be punched everytime he said it in order retrain him And its circulated something chronic amongst my mates probably because they are all students. And students come up with these stupid things that no normal person would say.
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