....'my bad' thing that a few people are saying???

My bad what??

more culture crossover language - the death of our language being expedited by 'popular' culture, 'musicians' and 'actors'

You can't say anything on here that's been created in the last ten years can you?

It's just a little thing to say you made a mistake, simples.

Don't have a cow man.

It's probably from American films, as Katcha says. That's why sensible people don't like it, Yubep.

I hate, 'I'm good', as a reply to 'How are you?'
I always think, bloody hell, I'm not going to ask after them again, then.

Concurring. Innit.

I suppose its better than them saying............."welcome to the board you nosey bastad".

No it's not. That would be a good anglo-saxon response.

Would you like us to all speak in ye olde english fair maiden?

No. She just wants you to speak in English.

Ok whatever i type now i'll put into the bunker grumpy old man filter first... see what it comes out with.

Comments like..

"anyone got the new nokia mobile"

Get filtered out too...

"Anyone got a shilling and halfapenny."

It's 'a halfpenny'.

No really, I genuinely didn't know. Most of my mates here are Aussies and New Zealanders, couple of Irish, couple of septics and a few Brits but I never read or heard it before.

So it didn't and doesn't make sense. Yeah move the language on but you have to keep grammar or it just becomes feral grunting.

I don't mind feral grunting. Just the saying of things because 'trendy' film actors have said them first. You change a word/phrase if you think of a better/more descriptive one, not otherwise imo.

I shouldn't worry, Spendikins. Most generations have their shite words and sayings. Mine did too.
But thankfully not many of them stick around that long.

Someone pointed out an interesting one to me. Our yank friends have adopted the habit of saying "I could care less" when they mean "I couldn't care less". This is presumably because they read the expression before hearing it. For it to make sense you have to imagine it being said in a New York Jewish voice much in the style of "I should be so lucky".
Unfortunately the nuance escaped them. But it'll eventually go away, although probably not before invading our shores.

Yes i say it cos trendy actors do so if i say it i feel like them

I feel like saying 'I asked HOW you ARE, not what you think you are', fooking numbskulls

It's almost as bad as people saying 'Can I get' when ordering a drink or food, I mean I don't know, can you?

Daft bounders

yea and merrily, forsooth

Well, put it another way. If Perry Como had said it, it wouldn't have caught on......

I get sick off people saying to me at work, would you like my account number. One of these days I'm going to say, 'No let me guess who the fook you are'.

Well amongst my circle there are two New York Jews, Hassman and Steinwinder, and they don't say it either, or else not in my hearing they don't. They're both pretty stereotypical though, I heard one say 'yada, yada, yada,' and the other has said 'whassup,' when he meant hello. Still no 'my bad' though.

Maybe it's just a Hartlepool thing. Like 'bewer' or 'gadgie.'

You might be in the wrong job!

You're almost certainly right.

That annoys me too billy, we also get people calling and they just start blabbing about there problems, without saying who they are, account number or anything, and expect us to simply know everything about them, like our job is to personally look after them and we sit all day waiting for there call.

"My bad" is American urban Ghetto slang, I believe, meaning "SorrY, my mistake."

No shit Sherlock........

American urban ghetto slang?

Who the fuck talks like that!

I'm surprised this thread hasn't unearthed The Ginger Poolie, champion of all things American...

Got it in one.

Or they start "It's Mrs Smith here from Birmingham" as if they are expecting you to say "How are you doing Flora, long time no speak"

It's a slang phrase that originates from the urban ghettos of the United States of America...

Therefore, it's American urban ghetto slang.

Is it indeed.......right.....I see........

Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?

- William Shakespeare

Speaking of poetry, I came upon this recently. By S. Heaney.

"...Edward Thomas in his khaki tunic
like one of the Evans brothers out of Leitrim,
demobbed, 'not much changed', sandy-moustached and freckled
from being, they said, with Monty in the desert."

I can't swear it but I'm almost sure that's about the other, less well-known Monty.

No, but it still gets on my nerves. Everything young people do gets on your nerves especially when it's a phase you've been though yourself and grown out of.

So we do agree on something or have I fallen into a well laid trap.

we'd all be speaking Chaucerian English if the language hadn't evolved - is it a hankering after days of what we perceive as some kind of golden era in our lives I wonder....

Langusge constantly moves on and develops. I have no problem with new words, if they're rubbish, they'll fall out of popular use anyway.

Thats a just a total load of troblonearies!

Stop cromulating!

My enquiry was nothing so complex.

It was simply 'what the fook are you on about??'

i like them especially the fruit and nut ones,they are made with triangler chocolate from triangler trees and triangler honey from triangler bees thats troblonearies

I know that, but I was trying to be ...er ....'nice' ... doesn't suit me does it.

I don't think they'll catch on.

Nah, it's your duty as a grown up to counteract everything youth do and say, that's all. It's a good general principle. That way you curb their wilder excesses without having to think too much.

"I remember when we had a lemonade van we used to run out with the empties and he would give us twopence for each one, then we would have our tea of dipping bread becasue dad was having bacon and listen to the wireless before bed"