When we tell someone “don’t talk to me about that nonsense,” we are asking them to stop giving us a long, repetitive or apologetic speech. The term ‘monserga’ It means “tedious, cumbersome, or repetitive lecture or speech” and the exact origin of the word is unclear.
Although the vast majority of etymological dictionaries mark this word as “of uncertain origin”, we can see that the lexicographer Joan Corominas indicated in his famous Critical Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language that, most probably, the term “monserga” derives from the Occitan mensorga (lie, lie) and this one from French lie (lie), being a fairly solid hypothesis but not supported by other etymologists.
The phrase ‘come with nonsense’ comes from the combination of the verb ‘come with (widely used in Spanish to introduce reproaches: come with stories, come with stories) attached to the name monsergasand the result is a familiar formula that prohibits small talk before a request, a reprimand or an apology.
The term “monserga” was first collected in the 1843 edition of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Usuelle (RAE) with the meaning of “Confused and Confused Language”. In the press and in literature, it has appeared for more than a century with the same meaning.
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