To absolutely hate the expression 'my bad'

[Claybury]

Keep hearing it more and more. Where did it come from and is it not really 'my mistake'!?
I hate it , feel angry even just writing this. It's horrible.
AIBU ?

I did not know "My bad" was US. Thanks MN, one day I will grasp all the subtleties of the British language :)

If we played baseball, then step up to the plate would have real meaning. It's a bit stupid to say it in a country where it has no meaning.

In fairness, most of the idioms we use don't really have much literal meaning in modern parlance and most people would never consider a ban on those just for that reason. At least most people would probably guess the origins of 'step up to the plate' if they thought about it, whereas something like 'carry on' which technically refers to hoisting sails is much more obscure but still acceptable.

Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?

Shakespeare, Sonnet 112

Wow Radio 1 eh? She's one happenin' chick !

YANBU I cannot stand it. I'm usually not that bothered with Americanisms but it really annoys me.
Another one I've noticed is someone saying "you threw me under the bus" meaning that you deliberately made them look bad. That one really makes me grind my teeth. Noticed it a lot on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares....usually at least once an episode.

I cringe whenever I hear anyone say 'my bad'.

The phrase that always makes me murderous, especially on Facebook, is 'date night'. 'Date night with hubby/hubs/hubster/husbeast. Just Fuck Off with the date night crap! It's as interesting as writing 'pie for dinner'.

Surely the British version of 'stepping up to the plate' is 'stepping up to the mark' which presumably means the starting line in a race or 'putting yourself on the line'?!

I think if I actually heard someone say 'my bad' I wouldn't be able to stop myself laughing (although they would probably see it as LOLLING?).

My bad is just the modern version of mea culpa surely?

Yes it is, and about 3 years ago (but I'm still not quite over it - give me another decade...) I wrote "mea culpa" in a mail about, "how did this problem come about?"

My manager hadn't heard the term before (a quick straw poll later found all the Dutch and German colleagues I asked had, but the British ones hadn't.) So he'd had to look it up. I was okay with all this, till the point where he said, "If you'd said 'my bad', I'd have known what you meant." Does he really I'm a "my bad" sort of person?!

I still say mea culpa when the need arises. Their lack of education is not my issue when google exists.

Scone, but in that example it's implied that there's a word missing ('my bad [points], my good [points] allow).

In current twattish usage, it's used as a synonym for 'my mistake' or similar.

DoJo, does carry on really come from sailing? Do you mean in the sense of 'what a carry-on'?

Bear, I say mea culpa all the time too.

And I judge anyone who looks blank when I say it. Mean but true.

Meant to add, I first heard, "It's a big ask," years ago on Neighbours - probably over a decade ago.

But I got distracted, because the mea culpa incident still winds me up.

OnlyLovers It's the same for "my bad" in modern parlance. It means "my bad act" or "my bad statement."

Another word that has started giving me the rage lately is "historical"

Mainly overused on the News, I don't mean as a way to describe the past, but as in "voters turned out in historical numbers"

Everything seems to be bloody historical

Is "a big ask" U.S as well? I do hope so!

Scone, nah, surely people mean 'my mistake'? That's how it always seems to me, anyway.

And the Shakespeare example refers to someone's range of good and bad acts and qualities, not just one act or bit of behaviour.

I say "mea culpa" too. But I also say "my bad" sometimes (I'm American). It's a nice shorthand way to acknowledge fault without making a big song and dance about it.

Oh YANBU. Horrible phrase. Makes me cringe.

to die for = instant rage

My mum has started saying this "ooo that cake was to die for, that sofa is to die for, that view is to die for".

Is it mother, is it really worth dying for

LongWayRound I completely agree with the sign off 'best' on emails. I have to force myself not to yell 'best WHAT?' at my pc (open plan office).

Also despise 'my bad' and I judge all who use it.

Glad to read that, OnlyLovers. I am judgy about it, too. Actually, I don't mind people asking what I mean, it was the attitude that I should be dumbing down, rather than them undumbing up. I am happy to explain things, and have had some good discussions about verb tenses and so on with some of my non-British colleagues, and I'm quite used to rewording things when needed. It's the lack of interest in learning I struggle with.

How about "Literaly" as in, "you literally just fry it". That's James Martin BTW. What the f*ing hell else would he mean, metaphorically fry it. Stand there, stare at it, pretend you're frying it and carry on as if it is fried? ....................sorry ! Carry on!

I was in a meeting where someone said, "They literally bent over backwards to help us."

I responded with, "Really literally? Wouldn't that have made it a lot harder?"

I was not popular.

Ebearhug- 'undumbing up' on this thread of all places ?!

I know, I know, mea culpa.

I just meant the exact opposite of dumbing down, which I suppose is "educate".