Re: OT: Spanish "me da feliz"

In a message dated 5/7/2008 07:18:15 AM Central Daylight Time,
markjreed@MAIL.COM writes:


> As to the odd grammar, I honestly have no idea.  Maybe someone else on
> here can contribute an etymology of the construct?   I can imagine
> that the use of an adjective in the "me da igual" case derived from
> something similar to the more conformant "me parece igual", but in the
> case of "me da feliz"/"triste" instead of the more obvious
> "felicidad"/"tristeza", I don't know.
>
I expected "felicidad" as well.  A friend who speaks Spanish (non-native, but
fluent) said the same thing, but explained "feliz" by saying that "they like
to shorten things".

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