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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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