Re: OT: Spanish "me da feliz"

on 5/7/08 4:26 PM, Carl Banks at conlang@AEROJOCKEY.COM wrote:

> 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."
ROTFLMAOSHIHLH


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