Déformation professionnelle

Re:Déformation professionnelle by framiere on Friday May 22, 2009 @11:20AM (#622172)

As a frenchman, I use it from time to time. However I never heard it in the US, is this saying somewhat known/used ?

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Re:Déformation professionnelle by _pius on Friday May 22, 2009 @11:21AM (#622174)

I'm from the United States and I'd never heard of it in my life until this morning. :)

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Re:Déformation professionnelle by CalmQuiet on Friday May 22, 2009 @01:37PM (#622404)

As an American with French heritage, I sometimes long for some of the fluid eloquence that French expressions provide. Alas, we are mostly left to use Americanism's like, "My bad."

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Re:Déformation professionnelle by gojomo on Friday May 22, 2009 @06:38PM (#622843)

'My bad' may have come to the US via basketball player Manute Bol, from the Sudan, whose native language is Dinka. (Though, 'my bad' could mainly be an artifact of broken English.) See:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002693.h...

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