# The next time I hear "my bad" I will kick someone in the head!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 29, 2002, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337 "2002-07-29T06:25:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/21 "2002-07-29T15:11:58Z")
Getting away from the “fuckin’ A” thing, I forgot to mention “all of _the_ sudden.” Again I say, Grrrrrr!! -Dirty ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/22 "2002-07-29T15:19:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BiblioCat \* > \*\*I remember saying “Fucking A” 20+ years ago in high school. > Is it making a comeback? \*\* Fuckin’ A. (See? It can also be used as an idiomatic “yes”) ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/23 "2002-07-29T15:29:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > “I seen that movie.” > > [smug] > Not in _Canada._ > [/smug] Not true! I actually know someone who says that, and he lives in Canada. Prior to knowing him, I had assumed it was strictly a Southern (U.S.) expression. And I freely admit that I use “my bad” on occasion. One I hate: _periphial_ vision ---
**Author:** ![duffman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@duffman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffman)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/24 "2002-07-29T16:16:10Z")
I’m surprised that randomly adding the word “yo” at the end of a sentence hasn’t showed up here yet. I’ve never understood the point of it or what it even means, but it annoys me to all hell. Luckily it’s use has tapered off quite a bit since college, but I still hear it occasionally. -duffman ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/25 "2002-07-29T16:27:38Z")
Let’s not forget that old favorite, irregardless. It’s not a word, goddammit! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/26 "2002-07-29T17:16:56Z")
Sweet bearded Jesus am I glad that I’m not the only one who despises the phrase “my bad”. I don’t know what it is, but something about that phrase makes me physically angry. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/27 "2002-07-29T17:28:13Z")
This seems to be a regional thing, but: “Bet” is NOT the past tense of “beat”. “Mine” is word that announces possession, and is NOT pronounced “mi-an”. Those are ancient indians. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/28 "2002-07-29T18:12:36Z")
My favourite right now, though, is the use of “my ass” (your ass, his ass, etc…) to mean “me” (you, him, etc.) Especially with adjectives. “That’s right, I’m gonna let my white ass teach the blues to the rest of the white asses in this room.” - Lea Delaria “Bite my faggot ass.” - myself ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/29 "2002-07-29T19:04:32Z")
Ahmahammia. As in, “Ahmahammia cigarette,” or, “Ahmahammia piece of pizza.” I mean, “I’m gonna have me a…,” is bad enough, but this is just too much. And… “Jeet yet?” “No, jew?” “Squeet.” Does anyone speak English anymore? It reminds me of that SNL sketch where the guy’s selling the system that saves time by abbreviating speech. “Airport” became “Airp” as I remember. It was funny then - someone didn’t get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/30 "2002-07-29T19:27:50Z")
My biggest pet peeve is the use of “supposebly.” For the life of me I can’t figure out where some people get a “b” sound out of the word “supposedly.” On the other hand, if I heard someone substitute all of their "d"s with "b"s in their everyday speech, I’b be mighty impressed, and would more-than-likely not lay them a beating. “Supposebly, the memo sent out yesterbay regarbing the ‘legenbary status’ of Presibent Forb was fraubulant. I unberstanb now that you shoulbn’t believe everything you reab.” ---
**Author:** ![Jules4love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@Jules4love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules4love)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/31 "2002-07-29T19:53:16Z")
Gobear you rock! ---
**Author:** ![Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/db5fbb/32.png) [@Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fred)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/32 "2002-07-29T20:19:20Z")
“Fuckin’ A” is short for “Fuckin’ Affirmitive”, at least the way folk in my neck of the wood use it. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/33 "2002-07-29T20:31:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ultrafilter \* > \*\*Let’s not forget that old favorite, irregardless. It’s not a word, goddammit! \*\* Sweet darling man, (I think you are a man? Sorry if not…) I hate to be the one to disabuse you of this notion. I too have been fighting this fight for lo these many years. And I used to be right, too. But a few months ago, I “discussed” this with someone, whipped out my dictionary to prove it, and … lo and behold, it is now a WORD! Popular usage has once again prevailed against reason, and irregardless now means…regardless. Don’t ask me how, but some dimbulb somewhere decided that if people use it incorrectly long enough, we should cave in and just accept that it means what some people THINK it means, even though the IR in front of regardless is a double negative and reverses the meaning of the word regardless completely. Or something like that. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*“I seen that movie.” > “I don’t gots none.” \*\* I am with you here, **Larry**. Two “grit my teeth” phrases I hear MUCH too often. [sub]I might have to say that one of them I hear, the “I SEEN that” one, is from a Canadian of my acquaintance. Sorry.[/sub] Two more that bug me are “I could care less” as opposed to “I COULDN’t care less” and the misuse of “bring” and “take”. Shouldn’t it be obvious that if you COULD care less you care a great deal more than you MEAN you do? And YOU bring, someone else TAKES. “Would you bring this to the party for me?” No, but I will TAKE it for you. And I will BRING something myself, too. Nitpicky, I have gotten all nitpicky in my old age. 🙂 Sigh ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/34 "2002-07-29T21:32:28Z")
“For all intensive purposes.” Man, that irritates the hell out of me. :mad: Sheri ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/35 "2002-07-29T22:12:32Z")
Yeah, that one too. Sheesh, and if you ever say…“Um, you mean intents and purposes” you get this blank look… I should apologize to all readers here…I have a sick cat and I am pretty cranky at the moment. Not that all these things don’t normally annoy me…they do. But I usually just internally shrug and let it go. Today…well, like I said, CRANKY! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/36 "2002-07-29T22:17:19Z")
I think I mentioned this once before in another thread, but I always understood “Fuckin’ A” to be a contraction of “You bet your fuckin’ ass”. And, yes, I carry a length of 2x4 around to smack people who say “my bad” with. Unless they are larger than me. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/37 "2002-07-29T23:35:14Z")
Just as a point of curiousity, **El\_Kabong** , shouldn’t that be a guitar you carry around to smack them with? My list is so insanely long I won’t hog the bandwidth to ennumerate it here. Suffice it to say it starts with “who/whom”, goes through “I/me” and ends up well beyond, “my bad”. On the linguistic side, though, isn’t my bad simply the English translation of “mea culpa”, which is a perfectly acceptable term? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/38 "2002-07-29T23:40:23Z")
Boy I must be pretty lucky, I haven’t heard half of these phrases. I have been extremely annoyed by an Aussie lass who referred to her mind as her mine. As in “I wouldn’t mine that” or “would you mine getting that.” EGAD!!! It hurts my fingers just to type that. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 5-HT \* > \*\*Just out of curiosity, what is the prefered way of differentiating between the island and state of Hawaii? I would think that’s the main reason people say “the big island”. \*\* I was born on the Big Island, I grew up on the Big Island. I lived in the state for 24 years and I almost never hear anyone refer to the island as Hawaii. Always the Big Island. Except on legal documents. I will occasionally hear “the Big Island of Hawaii” but that’s mostly for mainlanders who wouldn’t know which big island we are referring to. ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/39 "2002-07-30T00:04:14Z")
Osiris, don’t you say “ **the** Big Island” rather than just “Big Island”? Isn’t it a descriptive term like “the west coast” which needs the word “the” rather than a name like “Long Island” which doesn’t? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-next-time-i-hear-my-bad-i-will-kick-someone-in-the-head/121337/40 "2002-07-30T00:06:38Z")
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