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"My Bad" and other lazy expressions
JimVT
| 02/10/03
| JImVT
Posted on 02/10/2003 2:15:36 PM PST by JimVT
It seems we have unleashed yet another bit of bastardized English; this one is "my bad".
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: awholenother; english; goes; ichbingrumpy; language; more; noone; pot; thar; the; their; there; theyre; to
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To: John H K
"At this point in time...."
Which means the same as "now."
Why use five words when 1 will do?
To: cowtowney
I think your right. We're seeing a paradigm shift of meaningless words and bad grammar. It is very unique. For sure. No Doubt.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:43:02 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberty is no Vice!)
To: JimVT
No worry ... it's SOP and there4 No BFD
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:43:30 PM PST
by
clamper1797
(If we wanted the oil ... we'd just buy it.)
To: shhrubbery!
...and when I came back, all the talking head on television were spouting
All your talking head are belong to us.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:43:38 PM PST
by
lorrainer
(SORRY! I couldn't resist...my bad.)
To: Billthedrill
It is a definite possibility that you will be going postal in the foreseeable future.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:45:22 PM PST
by
CyberCowboy777
(Extremism in the Pursuit of Liberty is no Vice!)
To: freedumb2003
OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Thank you very much!
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:50:25 PM PST
by
lainie
To: CyberCowboy777
Shout out(bump) to the top.
Can bad net lingo terms be criticized? I would like to take every person who types 'prolly' for probably and burn them all at the stake. I mean that!
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:52:43 PM PST
by
kaylar
To: JimVT
"That's what I'm talikin' about"
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:53:59 PM PST
by
Bullish
To: lorrainer
Yada, yada.
To: canyon
Any word where the "s" is replaced with a "z" - drives me crazy!
A guy I used to work with put an apostrophe in EVERYTHING plural. When I see it now on FR, I have terrible "flashback's." EEWWWWW!
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:57:27 PM PST
by
lorrainer
("Basically is basically overused, basically.)
To: lainie
I'm no west coast surfer expert (I'm in WI) but, I believe it stems fom the surfers who would describe the perfect wave as being just under the top of the wave as the wave starts to crash over them, thus creating a lip, curl, or tube ie: tubular.
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posted on
02/10/2003 3:58:13 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(Going to war without the French is like going hunting without an accordian)
To: DannyTN
What's important is the people communicate well.
If communication is the important part of language, why not take the care to use language precisely? That way everyone knows exactly what one means to say. When a speaker or writer uses slang and bad spelling , the meaning is known only to the speaker or writer. Everyone else is forced to make an assumption, leading to poor communication. Grammatical guidelines were created not just to confuse and annoy students BUT TO FACILITATE GOOD COMMUNICATION...
Amazing, huh?
To: JimVT
I'm here to represent!
What I'm representing, I don't know.
But still, I'm here to represent.
To: ru4liberty
Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes.Ayup. You are absolutely correct.
I am guilty of not proofing two of the three uses of this rule.
My bad!!!!!!!!
BTW. You appear to have left your ellipsis open.
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posted on
02/10/2003 4:02:08 PM PST
by
JimVT
To: JimVT
Back in the day, we never used cliched expressions like that. My advice to you, Sir, is don't go there. I'm series.
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posted on
02/10/2003 4:04:33 PM PST
by
Gael
(Free the Indy 500)
To: Red Boots
"why not take the care to use language precisely?"Because it's boring. Language should be fun and alive! Wordplay is a fine intellectually stimulating art.
Words that once were considered slang are now accepted even by some of the most staunch grammatarians and new slang words are invented. Slang words usually are more precise and communicate more information that proper King's English can. For example "My Bad" versus "I'm sorry, I made a mistake".
Much more precise! Amazing, huh?
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posted on
02/10/2003 4:09:46 PM PST
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
pickles my bomb load What the heck does that mean?
I like the sound of it, but I'm afraid if I use it out of context, I may unintentionally offend a large person with a weapon.
To: xrp
I went to high school with a guy (20 years ago) who was 10 times the guitar player I could ever hope to be, who wrote a jazz compsition called "My Bad". You're right that the expression is nothing new.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
02/10/2003 4:12:12 PM PST
by
wku man
To: JimVT
Go ahead and flame me 'scuse me, what does FLAME mean?
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posted on
02/10/2003 4:13:55 PM PST
by
carenot
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