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Borges said that English was a richer language for literature than Spanish, but because of his reasons I assume he also thought it was better than French, Portuguese, Italian, and German.

He said that because English is in the weird position of being a Romance and Germanic language, we have two words for most ideas with slightly different meanings--e.g. ghost and spirit, the former being a "dark Saxon" word and the latter being a "light Latin" word. He also says that in English you can do almost anything with verbs and prepositions--e.g. "live up to," "laugh off," "dream away." You can't do this with verbs and prepositions in the Romance languages.

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>>16438218
Cringe

>> No.16009920 [View]
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Post the most well read authors in history
I'll start with pic related

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I want to be him. What do?

>> No.14868489 [View]
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There are no inmoral books anon, just inmoral readings.

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>>14730127
Based

>> No.14602715 [View]
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Review a fictional book

>> No.14439303 [View]
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How do I become the next Borges?

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Post someone and others guess how many books he has read

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Was he autistic?

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Not wasted, him being one of the greatest writers of his century, but it's a shame he never wrote a novel.

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