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No, but "being lazy" is an action, which can be stopped. It's much harder to stop being lazy if you are being told it's a facet of your identity.
by vermilingua 9y ago
No, but "being lazy" is an action, which can be stopped. It's much harder to stop being lazy if you are being told it's a facet of your identity.
- Zak 9y agoLazy, here, is a state. It could be understood as a temporary state like being asleep or being hungry, or a facet of one's identity. "Stop slacking" might be better; it unambiguously refers to current behavior that a person can change immediately.
- thomastjeffery 9y agoLazy is an attribute. "Being lazy" is a transient state. That's the important distinction here.
- betenoire 9y agoI thought that maybe another language would have a word for this, and I found https://spanishto-english.com/spanish-dictionary/haraganear https://spanishto-english.com/spanish-dictionary/haraganear It calls "being lazy" an intransitive verb
- PGenes 9y agoTIL: Raising children involves complex and subtle verbal acrobatics. How on earth did the species manage this for so long?