"My Bad" and other lazy expressions

JimVT | 02/10/03 | JImVT

[JimVT]

It seems we have unleashed yet another bit of bastardized English; this one is "my bad".

[ewing]

Ya mean hella good?

[CyberCowboy777]

I feel ya!

Get down wif yo bad self!

catch ya on the flip side.

My spell check ain't working?

[ewing]

Hughly series, or are we just being maroons?

[Richard Kimball]

Whatever.

[RightWhale]

Sometimes one or the other of us says squeet.

So we go eat.

[WIladyconservative]

I would like to take every person who types 'prolly' for probably and burn them all at the stake.

I'll bring the matches!

[B Knotts]

"Gone missing"

[GoreIsLove]

actually i mean hecka good.

[stopsign]

Yes, and I see where you come from. And from all of us no prob, brother drill. :)<<me.

[WIladyconservative]

"Like", in my opinion, should be stricken from common parlance

We drive my adolescent son's friends crazy with that. We will point out every time they use it - asking if they mean *was it similar to* something?? Then when they finally get the hint, they can't string a coherent sentence together without it . . . it's quite amusing!

[DannyTN]

Fun and alive, or used to communicate?

I'll take both as generations of people have done before me.

You are asking for a stop to a trend that is probably as old as man. Would it be better if we stagnated the language? Perhaps, but probably not. Either way it's not going to happen.

Everything from new technology, new concepts and yes, slang, is going to continue to influence the language. I would argue that today's English is both more complex and more precise than than the Old English of Beowolf. And certainly you couldn't communicate to more than a handful of scholars if you used Old English in today's world.

Perhaps you can ignore slang as probably 90% or more is simply fad and will go away. However, ignore it completely and eventually it will leave you obsolete and unable to communicate.

[JimVT]

"Gone missing"

Very good.

I remember hearing that during WW2 as a Brit expression that: "one of our planes has gone missing."

This week at least three TV news readers used the phrase to describe a potential kidnap victim.

Seems like when one of the Boob Tubers tries our a "new" phrase everyone else jumps on it.

[Friend of thunder]

Plus instead of and.

[WIladyconservative]

Our family slang is *klike* - it's a strung together version of kinda-like.

[carenot]

You've been here 3 years and you don't know what FLAME means?

Ofcorse I know what it means. I was just putting in my 2 cents worth. Ya know what I mean?

[CyberCowboy777]

I'm down with that

[JimVT]

The chances of you being descended to the former President are miniscule

And what about the highwayman, Darlin'.

Ya figger that's more me style?

Boy the woy...since this is a language thread...I'm either descended from or related to...!

[hollywood]

Speaking of 'lazy' expressions, there's another type that drives my nuts. I call it 'lazy tongue disease'; it's when an 's' is added to the end of a word that normally ends in a consonant. For example, "K-Marts", "Walmarts", "the vets", and even "anyways" (although that is listed in the dictionary.) It's as if the basic muscles of the mouth are like a baby's, unable to end a word on a 'hard' sound; there has to be a smooth, soft, ending. Finally, since the group therapy session is in full swing, 'up-talking' also drives me nuts. 'Up-talking' is the expression given to the verbal style where one ends every clause, statement, or sentence with a question-like intonation: "Today I went to the stoRE? And then I went to the barBER? ..." I like to interject with "I don't know; did you?". End of conversation.

[hollywood]

Ahem, "... drives ME nuts." ... Carry on.

[Happygal]

BOY the WOY????? *LOL* Well that's a NEW one on me!!

But I'd be the last to complain about seeing an Irish tri-colour on the boards of Freerepublic! *L* (Check my homepage! *S*)