/lit/ - Literature

>>17943755
>Reader doesn’t know
>Reader doesn’t look it up

Can you just go now?

>>17943755
>read a commentary
>no translation on the French texts
>no translation on the Latin texts
>no translation on the Spanish texts
>no translation on the Russian texts
I will never study your language.

>>17943779
no :)

Google exists.

>>17943755
Is everyone just going to pretend this isn't a poor way to write an essay? Its purposefully obstructive to readers, and drop you nascent arrogances of claiming he'd do right by already being a polyglot.

>>17943755
why not write a friend or acquaintance who can translate it for you

>>17944168
This. TS Eliot was frenpilled

>>17943851
Is it a poor way to write an essay?
Perhaps.
Is it stupid to complain about it?
Yes, now go back where you came from.

>>17944238
You all are fucking retarded if you defend this kind of outdated editing practices.
How much fucking effort would it be to provide a translation in a footnote? It's just obnoxious posturing.

>>17943755
eliot is so shit, this isnt the reason why though, he's just shit

>>17943755
Everybody is capable of understanding that this practice is nonsense.
If you're pretending that it's not an issue you're being a pseud.
The only way in which it's justified to not provide a translation for the Latin phrase you inserted is if you're trying not to be understood.
And that's rarely the case, especially in non-fiction.

>>17944273
Lol the guy reading TS Eliot essays is complaining about posturing

>>17943755
monolingual mutt

>>17943755
Google translate it you fucking pseud
>>17944385
Right?

>>17944385
>>17945412
>reading is posturing
never change retards.

Not translating French and Latin is acceptable as long as only one is used throughout
Not translating any other language (particularly Greek) is fucking retarded

Had this exact same issue with his essay on Baudelaire