Trendy Expressions May Not Be "Cool"

People use slang or jargon to those they don’t know really well and don’t realize that everyone is not up on the latest hip way of speaking.   A business contact of mine, when taking responsibility for a mistake, used the term ‘’my bad.’’   The Languagelady is a grammar nut, so my first reaction was to think ‘’my bad what?”  I wondered if the person hadn’t finished her sentence?  What wasn’t I understanding?  So, before you use some trendy, hot expression to show that you are cool and up-to-date, consider your audience and the reaction that it might have.  Instead of cool, you might convey quite the opposite impression.  And of course, you never get a second chance to make a first impression!