Use of 'bad' instead of 'fault'

[lynbrown]

Often I hear on TV usually USA series, a character says " Sorry, my bad" when he means "Sorry, my fault". How did that come about?

[DTCwordfan]

Because the scriptwriters are blithingly moronic.

[bibblebub]

it started in about 1970 according to this http://www.phrases.or.../meanings/my-bad.html

[EcclesCake]

I have no idea how it started but just see it as an evolution of our language.

[lynbrown]

Thanks,cant believe its been around that long. I was sure it had to do with text speak.

[commoner]

..mm...one of the really bad faults with the modern media, especially tv, is that it spreads bad faults in our perfect language so quickly...;-)

[DTCwordfan]

who was bad or at fault back there?

[pastafreak]

But language is always changing. What's spoken now is far removed from the English spoken several centuries ago. American English started to change as soon as the first settlers boarded ship and left here.