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Some instances of "x bad" "y good" were inspired by Saturday Night Live sketches a while back (and now on several times a day on Comedy Central) that involved Tonto, Frankenstein('s monster), and some other linguistically challenged character played by Jon Lovitz. Frankenstein (played by Phil Hartman) had a language ability limited to "x baaad" "y goooood" (e.g., "fire baaaad" "bread goooood"). Some of my fellow under-40-somethings and I have been known to imitate this (e.g., "committee baaaad" "wine goooood"). I'm not sure whether the SNL sketch was in turn inspired by something else (to my memory, the monster in Young Frankenstein enunciated nothing).<BR>
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All this is completely unrelated to "my bad." <BR>
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Lynne Murphy<BR>
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From: Anson Olds <ansolds@MASSED.NET><BR>
To: ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<BR>
Subject: Re: bad<BR>
Date: Sat, Sep 4, 1999, 3:48 PM<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE="2">Here is another example of teen language that "my bad" reminds me of. Not so long ago it was common to hear young people say things like "Homework bad," or "pizza good." Often this was used as an understatement, like "Hitler bad," or "ethnic cleansing bad." Am I wrong in assuming that this is a return to a more "childlike" construction? As I am new to dialect study, I don't know what the proper terminology is.<BR>
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<FONT SIZE="2">Emily Olds<BR>
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