Don Basilio era un hombre de aspecto feroz y bigotes frondosos que no se andaba con ñoñerías y suscribía la teoría de que un uso liberal de adverbios y la adjetivación excesiva eran cosa de pervertidos y gentes con deficiencias vitamínicas.Thoughts on Don Basilio's theory?
(Don Basilio was a man of fierce aspect and (with) thick mustaches that didn't put up with spinelessness and he subscribed to the theory that a liberal use of adverbs and excessive adjectivization were a thing of perverts and people with vitamin deficiencies.)
Knight Errant
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Is there an example for "liberal use of adverbs and excessive adjectivization" ?
A novel without adverbs and adjectives is like soup without salt.
Maybe I'm a bit crazy. The German edition of El Juego del Ángel is available but I wait for the English translation.
I also read The Shadow of the Wind in English.
It goes well together with sir Terry Pratchett's thoughts on people using multiple exclamations.
:P coming from him I'd say the character is being used to depict practical, unromantic characters, sort of muleheaded and lacking any sensibility whatsoever, is that a shcool teacher speaking? :P jaded jaded jaded.
Oscar.
Yes Oscar, I'm a jaded old fucker right now, especially since I am logging on just to answer this and a couple of things before I get back to grading exams and crashing. It's been a really blah week back and my knee and ankles are hurting. So yeah, Don Basilio's comments amused me in the context of what I deal with at work ;)
I won´t advance any answers to that, because I just received Zafón´s books in Brazilian Portuguese translation. Hopefully I´ll read them until February!
Curious to know what you'll make of Zafón's writing, Fábio!
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