La Palabra del Día: "Crecemos demasiado pronto viejo y demasiado tarde inteligente, desgraciadamente."

Question

As you can tell this is not original, but I thought it would be interesting to attempt to write it in Spanish. A little help is probably necessary. Thanks.

• Hi Jack. In your title were you trying to say "parábola" or "palabra?" - Izanoni1 Sep 27, 2009
• Thanks, Izanoni, for drawing my attention to the error. ¡Gracias! - jack17 Sep 27, 2009
• No problem...I honestly was not sure which one you meant because the sentence you chose as your example is a common "parábola" or "dicho," so I was not sure if that was intended or not - Izanoni1 Sep 27, 2009

Answer 1

Silly Question? Where do we find the word of the day?

That's not silly. Click on the blue bar at the top "More" and the Word of the Day is the first thing. You can also have it emailed to you directly. There is a check box for that on your profile.

• Thanks so much Greg! Sometimes the things right under our nose are the most invisible. Gracias. - miloszdom Sep 27, 2009

Answer 2

Is it correct to always put adverbs in front of adjectives in Spanish? This is very different because in English we would put the adjectives first: "We grow old too soon and grow intelligent too late."

• sorry- I guess that was really another question, not an answer. Just wondering though! - Jennivee Sep 27, 2009

Answer 3

Silly Question?

Where do we find the word of the day?

Answer 4

Taking some liberties with the syntax of the original, I'd say "Too soon old; too late wise."

Answer 5

Nice, samdie, but I'd probably prefer: "Old too soon; wise too late."