Last night as I was biking home, someone else came whizzing around a round-about, the wrong way. He too was on a bike, and knowing he was in the wrong, said "my bad" as a means of apologizing on his way.
This really bothers me. It's just not right. I can't accept it. Every time I hear it, it just sounds wrong. Now here is my question. Does it mean that I am getting old, not up with what the kids are saying these days (as opposed to when I was say 16 when I surely was up on all the latest music, fashion and slang... oh wait a minute, maybe not)? Or have I become a grammar prude from all my years of teaching ESL?
Does this one bother anyone else but me? Is it just my bad?
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Here is a possible origin for the term:
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2006/02/the_origin_of_m.html
sb's comment makes me hate it a lot less. When all my coworkers started using the phrase I asked where it came from and someone said 'simpsons'. That made me hate it more. While The Simpsons may be a funny show I resent the monopoly it holds on pop culture. Hey guys, get out there and think something different today, watch something different, make something different. (Tomorrow I'm gonna start bringing back 'mea culpa'. Kick some 'my bad' ass with that old shit...)
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