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My sick, My tired of the nauseating 'My Bad'
September 24, 2009"My bad" is making My sick and My tired.
I hear it everywhere I go.
At church.
At work.
At the poker table.
At the golf course.
At ballgames.
At the grocery store.
At restaurants and watering holes.
I'm not exactly sure when it became a part of the English language. But I do wish it would go away.
The phrase is stupid and annoying.
Plus it is grammatically wrong.
My is an adjective. Bad is an adjective.
You may have been asleep in high school English class when the teacher told you that an adjective can not modify another adjective. If it did, it would be an adverb.
Some say Manute Bol got it all started when he came to the NBA in the 1980s.
When he threw a bad pass or did something wrong on the court, the Sudanese center would say "My bad" instead of "My fault."
His Golden State teammates then started saying it and it caught on in the NBA.
From the NBA, it probably went to the streets.
Then to the schools.
To the movies ("Clueless")
To television ("Scrubs")
And eventually it ended up everywhere in my life.
So the next time you see me, please avoid "My bad."
If you say it, "My pissed."
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I think George W. that saying.
Because he was bad. Actually "the worst".
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