Re: OT: Spanish "me da feliz"

In a message dated 5/7/2008 08:12:20 AM Central Daylight Time, 
haggenkennedy@GMAIL.COM writes:


>     I'm sorry, but where did you hear/read that sentence? "Me da feliz" 
> just strikes me as wrong Spanish (someone whose L2 was Spanish would 
> say, but not something a native would). "Me da igual" is a known idiom, 
> but "me da feliz" or "me da triste", those I have never heard in my 
> life. It might be that I'm familiar with European Spanish, so maybe they 
> do use that kind of thing in the Americas, but it still sounds odd to me 
> (especially since I live in S.America myself).
> 
>     Maybe the sentence was something like "...me dá, feliz..."?
> 
Hi, Ken.
I didn't hear it.  It was sent to me by a friend who asked me for a 
translation.  He said he saw it in a video about monkeys.

stevo   </HTML>

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