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Re: Geek Speak?
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Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:21:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Allan Bedford writes:

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.

My mistake, my error, my bad judgment, mea culpa, oops, excuse me.

-->Bruce<--



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  Re: Geek Speak?
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Geek Speak?
 
(...) 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. (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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