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Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: JPK
Date: May 20, 2007 08:21PM
I have been hearing an increasing usage of the phrase "my bad". I don't like it, but can't pinpoint why? Maybe becuase I just turned 40, which means the last "cool" molecules just left my body.

But seriously, whenever I hear it, I think it is some Gen Y slacker admitting to being the fault of something with out recognizing the impact or apoligizing for it.

I would like to officially nominate "my bad" for 2007 word of phrase that should go away in 2008. I campaigned greatly for "You go girl" to go away since 1999 and it still permeates culture.

JPK
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: lafinfil
Date: May 20, 2007 08:26PM
whatever ....


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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: Carthaigh
Date: May 20, 2007 08:27PM
I would like to add:

"That's hot"
"Represent"
"No means no"
etc.


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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: GGD
Date: May 20, 2007 08:40PM
A bit off topic, but just the other day I realized that I haven't heard "going postal" in quite a while, and haven't heard of any post office shootings in several years.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: MacMagus
Date: May 20, 2007 08:45PM
> I would like to officially nominate "my bad"
> for 2007 word of phrase that should go away
> in 2008.

I think it took that award in 1991.


> the last "cool" molecules just left my body.

Or maybe you only just noticed it. Apparently there's a lag...

Okay, sorry for the sarcasm. My bad.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: ArtP
Date: May 20, 2007 08:56PM
Comes from my mistake (as in My MISTAKE NOT Yours) but don't sweat it:

My bad

A way of admitting a mistake, and apologizing for that mistake, without actually apologizing. The best definition I ever read of this, now paraphrased:

"I did something bad, and I recognize that I did something bad, but there is nothing that can be done for it now, and there is technically no reason to apologize for that error, so let's just assume that I won't do it again, get over it, and move on with our lives."

Ruder than apologizing, but with the same meaning: a flippant apology.

"You just spilled your beer on my term paper!!"
"Er... my bad."

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I've heard more irritating expressions as of late....
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: ka jowct
Date: May 20, 2007 09:03PM
"It's all good" is somebody's bad.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: $tevie
Date: May 20, 2007 09:04PM
This was a funny thread to see today, because this morning was the first time I heard someone say "My bad" in earnest (although I have read it online, I haven't heard anyone vocalize it unless kidding around or being sarcastic). The woman who was waiting on us in the coffee shop made a mistake, and when there was some confusion around it she said, "It was my bad." And that ended that.


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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: Cap'n Rusty
Date: May 20, 2007 09:07PM
I'd like to nominate the term "issues" angry smiley
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: MacArtist
Date: May 20, 2007 09:19PM
When I was working at the Lab; one of the workers would always say, "My bad. It's all good."

So really what he was saying is, he screwed up and no one should care.

I fear for the future.


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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: h'
Date: May 20, 2007 09:45PM
I could have written that first post. I was just wondering about this the other day. It's bled into the vernacular to the point that people in their 60s and 70s are using it, and I swear it wasn't even around until maybe 5 years ago. That, and "you're not the boss of me".

I suspect they're regional expressions that were popularized through some TV show.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: MacMagus
Date: May 20, 2007 11:21PM
> That, and "you're not the boss of me".

Where have you people been?

They used that line on the Brady Bunch.


> ...popularized through some TV show.

You mean, like in the theme song from a popular Fox tv show about a middle child named Malcolm by the award winning group They Might Be Giants? Nah.

I think it's been around a long time. I remember it being used in kids song lyrics throughout my childhood. It's one of those child-tantrum phrases ofen quoted in books and known to popular "wisdom."
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: cbelt3
Date: May 20, 2007 11:34PM
agreed that the 'boss of me' issue is ancient. I KNOW I used it on my big sister as early as 1966.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: trisho.
Date: May 21, 2007 02:17AM
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h'
I could have written that first post. I was just wondering about this the other day. It's bled into the vernacular to the point that people in their 60s and 70s are using it, and I swear it wasn't even around until maybe 5 years ago.

Are you kidding? Kids were saying that in early high school in Florida back in 1992. MacMagus is right, it has been around that long. Maybe it is regional but still...15 years people.


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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: RAMd®d
Date: May 21, 2007 04:10AM
It's been around far too long.

I have no idea of the where and why of it, except for what may be an urban legend.

Supposedly, when Shaq first arrived here, his English was very poor, and when he made a mistake he'd say "My bad". Again, there's probably no truth in that.

There's a whole list of Cliché Speak/Fad Talk that could go away with "my bad", and I'd never miss it. It could take "jumped the shark" along with it.

I think MM is referring to "you're not the boss of me", not "my bad", which was not used on The Brady Bunch .

If I'm wrong, then... well, you know.





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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: Jp!
Date: May 21, 2007 06:24AM
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GGD
A bit off topic, but just the other day I realized that I haven't heard "going postal" in quite a while, and haven't heard of any post office shootings in several years.

That's actually an interesting Mac GAME. Anyone play it?


another one:

Git 'er done : Heard it while kids were viewing Ol' Yeller last month. So, it's been around since 1956 or so..



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/21/2007 06:26AM by Jp!.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: guod
Date: May 21, 2007 12:11PM
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JPK
I have been hearing an increasing usage of the phrase "my bad". I don't like it, but can't pinpoint why? Maybe becuase I just turned 40, which means the last "cool" molecules just left my body.

But seriously, whenever I hear it, I think it is some Gen Y slacker admitting to being the fault of something with out recognizing the impact or apoligizing for it.

I would like to officially nominate "my bad" for 2007 word of phrase that should go away in 2008. I campaigned greatly for "You go girl" to go away since 1999 and it still permeates culture.

JPK

You think this is new as of 2007 ?????

I'm afraid to say that I've been using it (not often because it's usually not my fault hehehe) since high school or early college I'm almost 40
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: what4
Date: May 21, 2007 12:42PM
It's another one of those popular expressions that evades responsibility.

The proper expression is, "I'm sorry, I apologize."

"My bad" ranks down there with "no problem" used as a substitute for the socially enabling "you're welcome."

Both "no problem" and "my bad" are egocentric at the very moment they need to be social. They call attention to the perpetrator at the very moment the perpetrator needs to call attention to the social damage he has caused or validate the social interaction he is engaged in, with a "you're welcome," which emphasizes the "you."

My tuppence.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: h'
Date: May 21, 2007 12:44PM
Yeah, trisho is jumbling things, but no, I have not heard either phrase until in the last 5 years or so. Again, I think it's a regional thing that got a random boost into mainstream american vernacular recently.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: May 21, 2007 01:14PM
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what4
It's another one of those popular expressions that evades responsibility.

The proper expression is, "I'm sorry, I apologize."

What if there is nothing to apologize for?

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Both "no problem" and "my bad" are egocentric at the very moment they need to be social. They call attention to the perpetrator at the very moment the perpetrator needs to call attention to the social damage he has caused or validate the social interaction he is engaged in, with a "you're welcome," which emphasizes the "you."

The social damage? If I plug an ethernet cable into a 10/100 port rather than a gigabit port, what social damage has that caused? Maybe it caused no one any troubles at all, it was just a mistake on my part.

And how is admitting my out fault egocentric? Wouldn't blaming someone else for my mistake be egocentric?

I've been saying "my bad" for roughly 15 years.



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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: Baby Tats
Date: May 21, 2007 01:19PM
When you first heard "my bad" is directly related to your distance from an urban center. I think it is just now making it to the outer suburbs and rural areas.


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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: Kramerica
Date: May 22, 2007 11:25AM
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RAMd®d
It's been around far too long.

Supposedly, when Shaq first arrived here, his English was very poor, and when he made a mistake he'd say "My bad". Again, there's probably no truth in that.

I'd say you're right that there is probably no truth in that. Shaq was born in the US, and although some of his years growing up were spent in Germany, I hadn't heard that he ever had very poor english. He may say or have said the phrase alot anyway though. It does seem like something he'd say often.

It also seems like my friends and I were saying that back before Shaq was a household name, although I have noticed more folks saying it lately!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/2007 11:25AM by Kramerica.
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Re: Etymology of "My bad"?
Posted by: mediumcool
Date: May 27, 2007 04:57AM
"My bad" has only reared its unpretty head in Australia the last couple of years; I dislike it intensely but really hate "LIKE" when it's used as a "like, you know" filler.

About twelve years ago, an acquaintance told me his brother had a laptop: " ...it's LIKE a PowerBook." I asked him if it was an Outbound or other brand of clone—he looked annoyed and said that it WAS a PowerBook. Uh huh. Paul was always a trendsetter.
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