Re: OT: Spanish "me da feliz"

ROGER MILLS wrote:
> English isn't totally immune to putting adjectives where they don't
> belong:  'have a happy!' (sci. birthday).
> My mother, in her Alzheimer-ish dotage, used to say: "let's all just be
> a happier" (perhaps meaning ...family?)
I can think of a couple good English examples.  First, there's the
irritating catch phrase of 1996:

"Oops, my bad."

And then, a lot more analogous to the Spanish example, you might hear
someone say (horrifyingly):

"Hillary Clinton gives me warm fuzzy."



Carl Banks

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