/lit/ - Literature

>>20065502
>Johnson's dictionary was made when etymology was largely based on guesswork. His Classical leanings led him to prefer spellings that pointed to Latin or Greek sources, "while his lack of sound scholarship prevented him from detecting their frequent errors". For example, he preferred the spelling ache over ake as he wrongly thought it came from the Greek achos. Some of his spelling choices were also inconsistent: "while retaining the Latin p in receipt he left it out of deceit; he spelled deign one way and disdain another; he spelled uphill but downhil, muckhill but dunghil, instill but distil, inthrall but disenthral

>>19021503
fuck you

>>18944009
Humans are just dead.

>Jaaku narumono araba sono sugata wo kanata yori shiri te shippuu no gotoku jaaku wo inuku senshi ari

>>18866981
>>18866868
>reading philosophy
>suddenly intuit that everything i am to ever read on the matter is a deadend, someone's fiction, and misses the point / full scope of things for worship of intellectualism for its own sake
books on cultivating humility and respect for authority?

>>18779226
i don't get it

I can't relate to what you guys enjoy

I'm kind of an anarchist in the original sense but not leftwing at all. It's pointless to throw around labels because labels exist to appease people who only care about labels. That it is to say, purely social and anti-intellectual.

I've eaten kangaroo many times and helped gut one once.

dunno anything about him. i wonder if anyone itt really does either.

>>18229168
>>18229246
hey man i did preface it as delusions of grandeur. it was just an example. i realise it isn't healthy.

I refuse to read Bakker.

>>17949956
I have seen through you. I no longer need your meds. I am beyond your meds.

>>17839871
>americans are so used to foreigners that they don't know what's an english name and what's not

>>17700168
japanese doesn't have tense

>>17628199
>mfw he doesn't understand grammatical gender despite his native language having grammatical gender and thinks it literally means gender characteristics

>>17494397
>>17494511
>tfw you're not american but this shit will be forced into your country all the same
why are they so superficial and unprincipled bros? american concept of race doesn't even apply in my country, we go by ethnicity which whatever this 'white' and 'black' is, is not an ethnicity, but it will surely be peddled harder and harder and eventually overwrite. leaving a confused and racist mess.

>Homo, qui excludit verba populi est collectoris disiungitur veritatem.

Now sweep, if you've no response to your inadequate understanding of the rules herein.

Have any of you noticed, while meditating, how physical feelings turn out hollow? You feel
>ahh tummy ache
but when you try to pinpoint the x and y coordinants of it, it just turns to smoke and mirrors?