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Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.
I'm Sam.
And I'm Neil.
How are you today, Sam?
Thanks for asking, Neil.
I'm fine.
Not.
Sorry, so are you fine or not?
Oh, did I confuse you?
My bad.
Ah, Sam is speaking English, just a very modern type of English.
For example, saying, my bad, instead of my fault,
as a way of accepting that she's wrong.
Or adding not at the end of a sentence to show,
I really mean the opposite of us, I said.
Both are examples of small changes in English,
which have happened naturally over the last decade or two.
Changes like these happen, because unlike, say, Latin,