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| Dave Schuler wrote in message ... (...) flaunted (...) These people are trying to say "flout", but can't tell the difference. Maybe it's the American accent that causes the problem <g,d&r> Kevin ---...--- NEW Cottage kit, 577 pieces! (URL) TOWN (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) More or less as I had figured. But I can't help wondering... why don't people just use those perfectly good expressions? :) Sending an email that says, "oops, my mistake" just seems so much more real than saying, "my bad." The second one (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| For me, the first time I heard "me like" or something very similar to it, was when I heard Grimlock, in the cartoon The Transformers, say it. I'm pretty sure that's where it came from. "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) You know, its a good thing you don't listen to my conversations : ) "my bad" just rolls of the tounge easier, go ahead, say it, then say "my mistake". Which is easier to say in a hurry? Hasta la Vista, Sean (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) You might not want to impact them too hard... I checked four different dictionaries (three printed, one online) and can find in each a reference to the word 'impact' being both a noun and a transitive verb. (1) Ex. Noun = a striking together; (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) My mistake, my error, my bad judgment, mea culpa, oops, excuse me. -->Bruce<-- (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I'm not sure if it's at all related, but the one that makes my neck hairs bristle every time I hear it is, "my bad". I don't know what it's short for, if anything, or what exactly it means, but it bothers me for some reason. :) Allan B. (24 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I live in Northern California and those words mean exactly the same thing they mean to you. BTW I spent most of my teenage years in Western Washington and never owned an umbrella until I went off to college-- in Baltimore! Maggie C. (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I guess I just inherently know what is meant by each of those words including rain and rainshower activity when used by a Western Washington forcaster after having lived here my whole life. Rain means that the area in question is going to have (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Perhaps it originates from irc chats where typing "/me like!" would display "<name> like!"? That would be my guess. Either that or they just don't want to grow up, and use so-called "baby-talk." ;) Jeff "Jeff slaps Dave! around a bit with a (...) (24 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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