/lit/ - Literature

The most literary languages:

- English. If you already speak it, you're set for life, unless you're a midwit. You don't need any other language. Because it's already the world standard, not because some shitty tripfag failed to learn other languages.

- Latin has a good corpus worth reading in original, but everything worthwhile already got translated. There's some classical, medieval, and occult stuff, but it's either outdated, or shit that faggot hipsters fled to after being too dumb for established STEM and philosophy. Overall better than most of the following languages, but still not enticing.

- Ancient Greek. Good if you want to deal with the fragments of its kino texts, but its corpus is small. Beautiful sounding language with an clunky alphabet.

- Russian is worth learning. It has a lot of underrated crime and mystery fiction not translated. They're pretty good at it, and remember that this is the nation whose spycraft brought Britain to its knees, and still gains more ground against America than the other way (election meddling, etc). Their genre fiction carries over some of that eliteness.

- German's best untranslated works took a while, but got translated over the last few decades. All that's really left is being able to directly read and cut at deep meaning in its rigorous philosophy.

- French is pretty much a worse English, as everything worthwhile in French is already in English, or gets more quickly translated to English than any other pairing.

- Spanish and Italian. Lol no, these are fine for traveling dirty Latin America, or listening to opera, but laughably limp otherwise. Dante is great in rhyming, metered terza rima, but otherwise med-iocre.

- Arabic might have been kino, but Muslims are highly survivalist and self expression was left to everyone else in the world. It's few best stuff is already translated.

- Persian is the real prized literary language of the Middle East, but still kind of ugly, and with a corpus of flat romance and limp Sufism. These days, if Persians want deep culture, they just master English, instead of their own language.

- Sanskrit supposedly has untranslated gems, but they sound really boring, and when you consider how boring the boring Mahabharata is, and how boring India's people and society are, its lesser works can hardly be better, and it's no wonder that they aren't getting translated. It's main interest is retroactively refuting meanings in its philosophy, as with German.

- Chinese and Japanese. The only untranslated stuff anyone might want are films from China, and film, anime, and manga from Japan, but these already get translated fairly quickly. Their untranslated books are just midwitcore for hipsters and moms.

Noobookfags never knew what it was like to had a scene when scroll was the main media of literature. They all just came here right after the summer of Gutenberg.