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Lazy, 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 b
by Zak 9y ago
Lazy, 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