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Re: adjectives -> adverbs

From:Carlos Thompson <chlewey@...>
Date:Sunday, March 21, 1999, 16:20
I wrote:

> In Spanish there is a suffix -mente which makes an adjective (in > femenine) into an adverb...
I've just remember that a famous Colombian writer said once in an intervi= ew that he hated adverbs in -mente, and tried to avoid them in his writings finding ways around. I have not in hand works in this guy in order to ch= eck the ways around but I don't thing it is difficoult to get his works both = in Spanish or translated in any public library in Sweden or the USA. Actual= ly the first time I read "Cien a=F1os de soledad" I borrow the book in a lib= rary in Stockholm. -- Carlos Th http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/ Luh=EDz=F9langk=FBr=EB puh=EDz=F9langy=EFm=EAr=EB Luh=EDz=F9langk=FBr=EB puh=E9v=F9lay=EFm=EAyih=EDz=F9 -- Hangkerim proverb Vec=FBr=EBrangk=FBr=EB -- Hangkerim proverb