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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I realize that now, as I read more about
it. I heard it first in an all white high school among a variety of age
groups, male and female, and wondered how it began. Friends and students
clued me into the sports connection which, being TV free, I had never
heard. We are in a rural and mostly white area. No offense was meant
by my "ignorance."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Emily Olds</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B>Beverly Flanigan <<A
href="mailto:flanigan@OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU">flanigan@OAK.CATS.OHIOU.EDU</A>><BR><B>To:
</B><A href="mailto:ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU">ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU</A>
<<A
href="mailto:ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU">ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Friday, September 03, 1999 3:15 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re:
bad<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>The phrase originated in African American Vernacular
English, I believe, and was not intended to sound "childlike" or
regressive, whatever that means.<BR><BR><BR>At 05:45 PM 9/3/99 -0700, you
wrote:<BR>>>>><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE><?bigger>Maybe we've been around this topic and back again,
but I always thought "my bad," heard in my high school from
all sports team members, came from a variation on "my fault,"
not "my best," or "my bag," as others have
suggested. When I first heard it, I assumed it was one of the variations
that teenagers seem to come up with that are somewhat
"childlike" in structure. I remember doing this sort of
regression as a teenager, although that was so long ago I can't seem to
remember examples. As I hear more and more people talk about adult sport
figures using it, though, I doubt myself.<?/bigger><?bigger> Emily Olds<?/bigger><?bigger> c/o
ansolds@massed.net<?/bigger><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>