Sketches of Spanish: A Profile on Edith Grossman
‘“I knew this Colombian writer was eccentric when he wrote me saying that he doesn’t use adverbs ending with ‘-mente’ in Spanish and would like to avoid adverbs ending in ‘-ly’ in English.” She remembers thinking, what do you say in English except ‘slowly’? “Well, I came up with all types of things, like ‘without haste’.”’
