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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 Americani
by CalmQuiet 17y ago
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."
- gojomo 17y ago'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.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002693.h...