I didn't read any offensiveness into your comment either, so we're cool!
Actually, I think your remark about not hearing a final consonant at all
probably best explains the mistaken perception. A slight glottal stop
was probably substituted for the /d/, and you interpreted it as a /g/
based on your earlier familiarity with "That's my bag."
At 07:36 PM 9/3/99 -0700, you wrote:
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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." Emily Olds
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Date: Friday, September 03, 1999 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: bad
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American Vernacular English, I believe, and was not intended to
sound "childlike" or regressive, whatever that means.
At 05:45 PM 9/3/99 -0700, you wrote:
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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. Emily Olds c/o ansolds@massed.net
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