Mia culpa, to all us lax Cathos ...
On 30/03/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Just for you furriners out there: "my bad" = "my fault" or
> "my mistake."
>
> Hal
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> "Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
> --Anon.
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> Halvard Johnson
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> On Mar 30, 2007, at 5:26 AM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
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> > I remembered wincing when, knowing Laurie to be a Brit, he uttered
> > 'my bad'
> > in one episode of House. Most of the time he just speaks 'good'
> > English with
> > a manufactured drawl, and does it very well. 'My bad' irks me
> > because it
> > leaves so much to the second party to fill in. My bad what? As with
> > formulations such as 'I was, like, whatever', what seems lazy and
> > colloquial
> > is actually quite demanding (it seems to me) because you need to
> > know what
> > would have been said if the speaker had needed to lay out the whole
> > story in
> > full. The second party has to insert the substitution in real time.
> >
> > The thing with 'off of' seems to be the intrusion of the oral into
> > the forms
> > of the literate. We have become so accustomed to the latter
> > structuring the
> > former that we sometimes forget which is the cart and which the horse.
> >
> > P
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of MC Ward
> >> Sent: 30 March 2007 02:15
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Re: off of
> >>
> >> Does anyone else watch the tv series "House"? I was
> >> astonished to read recently that the show's star, Hugh
> >> Laurie, is a British actor who lives in London with his wife
> >> and 3 children. Every other weekend he flies to London to see
> >> them. I would never have guessed he was British since he
> >> "speaks American," as he puts it, so well. It's the hardest
> >> part of the job for him, compared to, say, learning his lines
> >> for each weekly episode. Only after he's gotten his lines
> >> down can he concentrate on "translating" them into "American."
> >>
> >> If you don't know "House," try to catch an episode.
> >> It's a wonderful show, especially thanks to Laurie, who's
> >> obviously British-trained in acting and turns in a
> >> spectacular physical performance week after week (Sat. night
> >> at 11:00).
> >>
> >> Candice
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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