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

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Silly Question?

Where do we find the word of the day?

Answer 5

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