/lit/ - Literature

>>20217626
I am still learning latin and the next one will be old greek.
You have some advantages learning them to proficiency as far as I could deduce:
- not everything is translated. Good luck reading what you are interested in if the only translated copy of an obscure writer now costs several hundred bucks while the original can be found for free on the internet.
- sometimes the translations suck. Some people dont get what they are translating and distort the meaning and some things are almost untranslatable.
-there is a growing group of assholes that write translations that distort the original to fit their politics. Just look at that asshole woman that made this horrible translation of the Illiad that suddenly had feminist and leftist undertones.
- writing your important notes in a dead language is a great cockblock for people trying to read your stuff. I hate it whenpeople glimpse on my notes. My plan is to write business plans or very personal stuff in old greek when I am good enough with it. I will never be so important that someone would employ one of the few translators of that field for my notes. And if I ever become so important after my death that people want to read it (which most likely will never happen) it is in a language that can be translated even thousand years in the future with no big problems.

>>12774952
Based

>>12546427
>>12546448
quisquis es, ignoscas; in nullam lumina partem
gurgite ab hoc flexi studioque operatus inhaesi