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Keep meaning to get around it
I've just heard the following dialogue:
-I've packed him extra socks ... -Did you hide the extra cash in there for him? -Yes, I did. -And the scarf I knitted? -You only gave me a ball of wool. -I kept meaning to get 'round it. I think I got the "to get around" part: "hacerme de tiempo (para eso)". But the "I kept meaning" baffles me a little. I think I understand it but a translation into Spanish eludes me. What that can be? "estuve tratando de hacerme de tiempo (para eso)"?
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I kept meaning = It was always my intention
I kept meaning to get around to it. = I was thinking about doing it (knitting the scarf) all that time. = It was my intention to have done it (knitted the scarf) by now. |
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Years ago I received a gag gift of a little round piece of wood wrapped up in packaging that identified it as A Round Tuit, with an inscription that said "The perfect gift for someone who was always trying to get around to it."
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Thank you both.
So it's like the use of imperfect in Spanish: "tenía intenciones de hacerlo" with the verb meaning a permanent state which never has led to some concrete action.
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Rusty is correct of course, and it also means the same / similar thing to what Rusty stated:
I have been wanting to do it. This is VERY rare, and I assume you heard / saw it in a movie. One could say: I kept/keep meaning to do it, (although I have been wanting to do it, but have not). Last edited by Aprendo; January 16, 2017 at 06:30 AM. |
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