FQR: Mark Rushton Woods (GBR) UNR age 16 def. Mohamed Ben Ali (TUN) UNR age 15 6-1 6-1


And decent-ish MD draws for the two of them:


R1: (q) Imran Aswat WR 1546 v Vadym Ursu (UKR) WR 956 (CH 888 back in June)

R1: (q) Mark Rushton Woods UNR v Juraj Masar (SVK) WR 1009 (CH 608 in May 14)

goldfish wrote:

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Is this week 37?

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Yes.  Dealt with.  

As a linguistic aside, I've been thinking about "my bad" and I know some / many will not agree, but it seems to me to have a place. I admit myself to once or twice using it slightly provocatively since I knew some would go "argh!" but the more I think about it the more I actually feel it has its place in an evolving language and on this side of the Atlantic too.

As I see it, it means rather more than sorry, it is really shorthand for "my bad mistake, which I acknowledge and take responsibility for". Now that would be rather a mouthfall in the middle of a pro basketball game ( and I believe it originates in US sport ) so is good there as a very quick acknowledgement. Now in a forum of course we have time to expand, but personally I get the message and have no problem with it.

Sorry* Brad for making so much of your short comment, but it just reminded me of my earlier thoughts.

* "my bad" would not have been appropriate there since I am simply apologising to Brad.

indiana wrote:

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* "my bad" would not have been appropriate there since I am simply apologising to Brad.

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 Perhaps "My Brad" would have been more apt in this setting? 

indiana wrote:

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As a linguistic aside, I've been thinking about "my bad" and I know some / many will not agree, but it seems to me to have a place. I admit myself to once or twice using it slightly provocatively since I knew some would go "argh!" but the more I think about it the more I actually feel it has its place in an evolving language and on this side of the Atlantic too.

As I see it, it means rather more than sorry, it is really shorthand for "my bad mistake, which I acknowledge and take responsibility for". Now that would be rather a mouthfall in the middle of a pro basketball game ( and I believe it originates in US sport ) so is good there as a very quick acknowledgement. Now in a forum of course we have time to expand, but personally I get the message and have no problem with it.

Sorry* Brad for making so much of your short comment, but it just reminded me of my earlier thoughts.

* "my bad" would not have been appropriate there since I am simply apologising to Brad.

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This will come as no surprise to anyone:  it's ugly, it always looks to me "unfinished", as if something else should come after it (leaving me wanting to ask "your bad what?"!), & I hate it!  

Yes, I think it's somehow a more apologetic element than to "my fault" or "my mistake", which is difficulty to fully explain ( I guess just that "bad" ), but I think is more liable to elicit empathy from folk ( OK with the phrase ) that responsibility has been taken and you are sorry and elicit a "that's kool" ( says he maybe rather opening another slight can of worms).

Indeed, I first linked it to "sorry", because of that apologetic element. I guess it's "my fault / mistake, sorry".

So, yes, I think there is indeed a small gap that it is filling very succinctly. And I was a bit "what is this ?!" when it first entered my consciousness.

-- Edited by indiana on Monday 14th of September 2015 10:59:14 AM