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Is this AmE?
"I have posted too many questions in one day.
It's my bad."
If so, what is the British equivalent?
Thank you.

I don't even recognise this.

What is the context/mood of the comment?
Sarcasm? I don't care? couldn't care less? ironic? self effacing? self depracating?

LDCE (Longman Dic. of Contemporary Eng.):
bad2 2 my bad! AmE spoken informal used
to say that you have made a mistake or that something
is your fault

It's American English. For example, if I say to itasan, "Try to put more of your posts into one post, instead of a separate post for each one."

and if he says, "Okay, that's a good idea, I will." And then he posts some more posts with one word in each one, I could say, "Oh, did you forget to post them in the same post?" And he could say, "Oh, my bad. I forgot."

Thank you very much, Lorikeet.
I don't know how to put several questions
in one post, because each question arised
at different times. Moreover, I'm not posting
several questions each day any more. My bad.

Itasan
this is easy. I do not wish to insult your intelligence nor am I trying to flame you. I think what you are doing has value, which is why I bother to post.
But other business english stuff is at risk of being lost on page 77 of the forum if we don't resolve this.

Situation now
We are now participating in a tread. If we continued to post replies we would continue the thread (my bad).
We could then change the words that we are discussing, but the thread would still be called 'my bad'. For example we could have a few posts about the meaning of 'backwards'.

Lorrikeet it suggesting we move to Plan B.
For example
Start a thread called 'BrE Vs AmE words/idioms begining with A'.
Discuss words such as attrition, awsome, etc.


'BrE Vs AmE words/idioms begining with B'. Discuss words like - Bad/my bad.

Hope this helps.

Itasan wrote:Is this AmE?
"I have posted too many questions in one day.
It's my bad."
If so, what is the British equivalent?
Thank you.

The expression you have quoted, my friend, is a shortened form of the question:

"Am I bad?"

As a tip between gentleman, please don't ever use this expression, not unless you want to sound like a recently freed, African-American slave. It's a relatively new creation of the African-American Negroes, in their ever present rebellion against civilised society to always be obligated to create "new" English words in their endeavour to insure that they do not speak English as the "white man;" former slave owner, does.

It is considered low-class by anyone possessing more than a sixth class education.

Dodger wrote:

Itasan wrote:Is this AmE?
"I have posted too many questions in one day.
It's my bad."
If so, what is the British equivalent?
Thank you.

The expression you have quoted, my friend, is a shortened form of the question:

"Am I bad?"

As a tip between gentleman, please don't ever use this expression, not unless you want to sound like a recently freed, African-American slave. It's a relatively new creation of the African-American Negroes, in their ever present rebellion against civilised society to always be obligated to create "new" English words in their endeavour to insure that they do not speak English as the "white man;" former slave owner, does.

It is considered low-class by anyone possessing more than a sixth class education.

I beg to differ. Of course there is a difference between colloquial usage and more formal usage. "My bad" is most likely not something I'm going to use in a presentation to some colleagues (unless as a humorous aside). However, I use it talking informally to friends sometimes. Regardless of the origin of certain words, they can get picked up by people possessing more than a sixth grade education. It's quite possible you are not from the U.S., as you referred to a "sixth class" education.

In addition, I found your explanation to be offensive and rascist, and clearly lacking in any understanding of American culture or how word usage develops.

Thank you, Lorikeet, for the good post.

Dodger wrote:
As a tip between gentleman

Hi Dodger, in one of your previous posts you claim that you are a US American who is teaching English in Switzerland. Could you please tell us what your phrase as a tip between gentleman means? To me it seems you have made up this construction which appears to contain some grammar errors. How can teach English with this kind of attitude?

www.english-test.net wrote:

Dodger wrote:
As a tip between gentleman

Hi Dodger, in one of your previous posts you claim that you are a US American who is teaching English in Switzerland. Could you please tell us what your phrase as a tip between gentleman means? To me it seems you have made up this construction which appears to contain some grammar errors.

I do not agree with Dodger on his socio-political view of language, such as 'mybad'. But the criticism of 'a tip between gentlemen' is perhaps unjustified.
This would appear to be a variation of the customary expression 'between gentlemen'. Its meaning is quiet clear to me as a BrE speaker.
It is not standard English, but it is valid. This is a discussion forum, not a classroom. We need to remember that there are many Englishes.

Don't bother to pick me up on my spelling, this in't an essay eether.