belated WOTY

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Miller, Jerry wrote:

> was botched. It gets very scary when Internet shorthand edges toward
> standard usage.

Why do you refer to "my bad" as Internet shorthand?  Isn't this term
associated primarily with playground basketball and other sports contexts?


Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
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