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Re: Geek Speak?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:22:33 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Allan Bedford writes:
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> > 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. :)
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> > Allan B.
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> My mistake, my error, my bad judgment, mea culpa, oops, excuse me.
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 almost seems detached, as though by
using this not so genuine expression, you aren't nearly as remorseful as you
may seem.
Well, there I go over-analyzing again. My bad.
;)
Allan B.
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| (...) Because every generation wants to communicate in it's own terms. It always has been, and it always will. Besides, "My bad" is so much cooler than any of the others. Anything is better than my generation's, "We need a meaningful dialogue." :-) (...) (22 years ago, 13-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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