My neverending quest to understand words continues...
Today, I think my friend and I figured out English equivalents for some words and phrases that have eluded me for some time.
Regañar - to chew someone out.
Me da pereza - I don't feel like it.
"Me da pereza" literally means, it gives me lazyness. I always thought that was so weird that people say so often that they are not doing something because it gives them lazyness. In the culture of the US, laziness is such a character flaw that people don't claim it in conversation:
Teacher: Move to your assigned seat.
Student: No, I'm lazy.
or
I want to go to the party, but I'm lazy.
But you do hear: I want to go to the party, but I don't feel like it.
So... as I write my own mental dictionary....
That is how I've decided to interpret that phrase.
Wow, you are really getting deep into the language nuances....some are quite funny.
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