Johanna,
I don't think that adverbs and adjectives look exactly the same in
German.  The adjective varies with case inflections; the adverb does
not.  "Er trägt schwer." [adv] "Er trägt eine schwere Ladung."
[adjective varying with case of the noun 'Ladung] and "Er trägt
Schweres." [nominalized adjective with full case endings]--unless the
parliamentary powers have gone wilder yet with legislating changes to
German orthography. <g>

==Best, Reinhold

Johanna Rubba wrote:
>
> Both of these queries seem explainable to me.
>
> 'Now' and 'once again' are each adverbs, 'once again' being a phrasal adverb.
>
> 'Professional' is also being used adverbially. English seems to be
> gradually losing its -ly adverbial suffix, and will probably eventually
> be like German, in which adverbs and adjectives look exactly the same.
> The loss is most common on frequent words like 'slow', but I can see it
> happening more widely. It may also be that some dialects of English are
> farther along this path than others.
>
> An interesting case is Apple's slogan 'Think different'. A lot of people
> interpret this as an 'incorrect' adverb, but I read it as an adjective;
> something along the lines of 'think: "different"' rather than 'think differently'.
>
> But then maybe I'm weird.
>
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