[JimVT]

Forgive the vanity but it's a slow day and I'm tired of waiting for the SaddamAttack so I've been lurking all over the FR today and find increasing use of the phrase "my bad" and was wondering what the hell people are talking about when they use it.

After some research on the 'net I found a couple of sites that discussed its use. (One is linked below)

"My bad" reminded me of another expression that had a brief existence a few years ago: "This is true."

I was speaking to a group in a meeting one day and this up-and-coming type must have interrupted me 5 times with a "this is true" statement.

I finally thanked him for his support and asked: "What the heck ever happened to "you're right" or "correct". I've forgotten what his response was.

Anyway I know this is not an earth-shaking issue but my simple and no doubt, futile, plea to use the language the way it was meant to be used with simple, declarative sentences and a minimum of jargon.

Go ahead and flame me and I promise I'll start on "route" and "rout" next!

MyBad

[HumanaeVitae]

We are becoming a nation of dumbies.

[mystery-ak]

I hate *I've seen it with my own eyes*...

[MEGoody]

When thrown out in response to a clearly delineated argument, I find the word 'whatever' extremely amusing. I generally shoot back, "Ah, well, I'm glad you've seen the light and now agree with what I've said." They usually just give me that 'deer in the headlights' look.

[piasa]

Why use "my bad" when "oops" will do?

I never did understand why people simply don't say "It's my mistake," or "I was mistaken."

[Centurion2000]

That's an old expression ..... last time I encountered it was working with some dark green Marines while over in the Gulf.

What's your real worry here? If it were not for English's ability to adapt we'd still be speaking in Old or Middle English which would really suck.

[IowaHawk]

"24-7"

"Don't even go there"

"It's all good"

"You go girl"

"Talk to the hand"

"Keepin' it real"

"At the end of the day"

"Going forward"

[Doctor Stochastic]

You may not like it, but it's not about you.

[SerpentDove]

Word up.

[John H K]

My hatred for:

"At this point in time"

knows no bounds (It means exactly the same thing as "at this time")

For whatever reason it is impossible for any law enforcement, search and rescue, EMT, emergency medical, etc. person to give any sort of interview or briefing WITHOUT using "at this point in time." I wonder how THAT started?

[11th Earl of Mar]

Go ahead and flame me and I promise I'll start on "route" and "rout" next!

Not a bad post.

But how about one on "your" and "you're"?

[showme_the_Glory]

Don't worry "it's all good"

[Shooter 2.5]

My problem is trying to understand all of the acronyms the military uses. Someone will typed four or five paragraphs and they can't type a couple more words to explain themselves.

[11th Earl of Mar]

I was going to write a long response.

But yada, yada, yada. This is my post.

[ncdrumr]

And what not.

[cowtowney]

I think your right. We're seeing a paradigm shift of meaningless words and bad grammar. It is very unique. For sure.

[Petronski]

When you hear 'the truth of the matter is...' you are being offered one version of the truth, and not a good one.

Listen for it, it is uncanny, especially on political shows.

[SerpentDove]

We're talking majorly irritating!

[GoreIsLove]

that hella sucks

[shhrubbery!]

I wonder if these toxic little phrases come from television shows -- sitcoms, maybe? I don't watch them, but through osmosis figured out that the annoying 'yada, yada, yada' came from Seinfeld.

Another dumb ubiquitous phrase is 'lose it,' which I guess means to have an emotional breakdown. Don't know where that came from.

The mother of all stupid phrases is, for me, 'affirmative action.' (Of course it differs from sitcom expressions in that it was created to be obfuscatory, rather than just cute.)

I was in Europe for a couple of years in the early '70s, and when I came back, all the talking head on television were spouting 'affirmative action, affirmative action.' I had no idea what they were talking about.

[Wright is right!]

I always thought "my bad" was started by Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars Episode One.

Michael