TIL Gabriel García Márquez refused to use adverbs ending in -mente in his [Spanish] book “Love in the Time of Cholera”, so he requested that his English translator Edith Grossman omit any use of adverbs enging in -ly.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/21/gabriel-garcia-marquez-remembered-edith-grossman-translator

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