/lit/ - Literature

>>14588108
this is just one big mental gymnastic to avoid reading

>>14588134
Kek. FPBP.

>>14588134
>>14588148
If I didn't want to read, I simply wouldn't; it would be no turn of course from the normalfag mass that binge watch Disney+ and play vidya in their idyllic ignorance. It's only here on this Cantonese corn shucking forum where you faggots promote reading yet nearly none of you actually read, out of some elaborate show of pretense and epeen. Like the metaphysical rambling of some obscure mudfrog means anything in the long run.
I'm asking a genuine question.

>>14588215
wow you look exactly like i expected you to OP
>i-i-i wont read the greeks unless i learn ancient greek!

>>14588238
Okay, nigger. You can poison yourself with diluted pigeon's shit. Fuck you. I bet you read the Fagles translation you stupid nigger.

>>14588108
learning 4 languages will take so much of your time that could be spent reading, thinking and writing. Also you implicitly believe that your remedial grasp of each language will put you in better stead to comprehend each work than the scholars who have already done that work for you, understanding the milieu of each work far better than someone who has spent their time levelling up their language stats like it is vidya. For shame, OP

>>14588272
I read what I want FREEMASON FUCK

>>14588108
Why would you go to German then? Why not Latin? Anyways, if you are so paranoid, just read two disparate translations. There is a whole bunch of old 1800’s ones if you are afraid of modernism’s. Or you could go annotated Greek and cross reference with wiktionary on particular words. Or a modern translation. Basically unless you think there is a super Illuminati that fucks with all extanent texts besides the Greek for some reason, you should be good. Just compatible translation.

>>14588108
if you want to read the fucking books do it. The translations are fine. If your paranoid, which your not youre just a faggot, read translations before the 1980s or 70s and youre golden. You can learn the languages whenever you want, but start now because there is no better time. The order you learn languages in doesnt matter retard. Pick one. Focus on it. Since it is your first language you ever will 'learn' dont take two at once, you can do that much later. Pick what you want to read and that will motivate you. Also this was a collasal waste of fucking time because you already knew all of this and were just too lazy to stop shitposting and get on with reading.

>>14588108
bro when it comes to the greeks you wouldn't understand their words even if you knew the language without twisting them. the worldview and the way language is used beyond the level of grammar is too alien. shit that's quaintly translated in an easy to understand manner is completely different in the original, but it's still a good interpretation for the modern to grasp what was said. the more distant the more you must invest in piercing this. you can't make use of a presentday language's semantic landscape or its cultural references/connotations because they're yet to exist. What I'm saying is it's a bigger investment than you realise.

>>14588309
>read translations before the 1980s or 70s and youre golden
Why?

If you have a soul the essence of the text will reach out across time and language. If you are a robot obsessed with mechanically reproducing grammar it is doubtful you would gain much even if you could read them in the individual language.

>>14588108
>Russian
>Latin
>Greek
>German
>French
>Russian
>Italian
>Spanish
>Polish
>Anglo-Saxon
>Sumerian
>Aramaic
>Hebrew
There. :^)

>>14588357
this. OP if you don't learn those languages you will never master the canon and die in the dark

>>14588108
You’re too neurotic to ever make it. Don’t worry so much about getting things right
Language learning has truly become the New Year’s resolution self-help tripe of this board