Talk:breaking bad
Latest comment: 12 years ago by -sche in topic RFV discussion: August 2011–March 2012
Baseball origins? edit
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Hits on Google book search seem to be either for a US TV series, or for "breaking bad news" or "breaking bad habits". SemperBlotto 09:12, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Searching before 2005, excluding some common collocations like "bad news", "bad habit/s", and sifting through a lot of irrelevant hits led to enough citations. (deprecated template usage) Break seems to mean "become" or "turn" (possibly more suddenly or with echos of the breaking of a horse, or of lucky breaks), so this is arguably NISoP. DCDuring TALK 11:06, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- Inclusion criteria I admit that I'm pretty ignorant about Wiktionary (I'm from en.wp), but several citations have been provided to show that this colloqualism has existed for over a century. I'm not terribly familiar with NISOPs, but I can say that if I simply heard someone saying something about "breaking bad" prior to the show and the explanation that I read of its etymology, I would not have pieced together its meaning. koavf 08:27, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
- See also Here. koavf 06:40, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
- Inclusion criteria I admit that I'm pretty ignorant about Wiktionary (I'm from en.wp), but several citations have been provided to show that this colloqualism has existed for over a century. I'm not terribly familiar with NISOPs, but I can say that if I simply heard someone saying something about "breaking bad" prior to the show and the explanation that I read of its etymology, I would not have pieced together its meaning. koavf 08:27, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
- Apparently resolved. Struck. - -sche (discuss) 22:13, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
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If this dos exist, I imagine it's a verb to break bad. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
- It looks like a valid US regional colloquialism. I'll try to cite it. It looks like a clear
{{move}}candidate. DCDuring TALK 09:55, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
References edit
- 2008, Bryan Cranston:
- "The term 'breaking bad' is a southern colloquialism and it means when someone who has taken a turn off the path of the straight and narrow, when they've gone wrong."[1]
- 2011, The New York Times:
- "the title is a Southern phrase for going wild"[2]
- ^ Fans Chat With Bryan Cranston, published by AMC TV, 2008-03-09, accessed 2011-08-15
- ^ The Dark Art of ‘Breaking Bad’, by David Segal published by The New York Times, 2011-07-06, accessed 2011-08-15