/lit/ - Literature

Ayo when we finna get the magnum opus of contemp english and what will it be about senpai?

>>18310832
them whyt ppl be writin them books baka fr fr

>>18310655
I wouldn't really describe Shakespeare as modern. I think you're missing at least 2 or 3 steps between Shakey and amerimutt speak.

>>18310832
Infinite Jest already exists

>>18310861
That's Modern English, we need something for the twitter generation written in ebonics.

>>18310859
Shakespeare is mutually intelligible with modern English which is why it is described as modern.

>>18310859
Shakes is Early Modern English if we're going to be technical but I didn't know any representative writer of the Modern English era. Defoe, maybe? Sterne?

>>18310895
Joyce

>>18310655
Hemingway is probably the most influential stylist of the 20th century

>>18310655
We won't really know who the big name of the era is for at least a couple hundred years. The test of time is the ultimate signifier of artistic quality

>>18310935
No, that's just the test of time, not of artistic quality.

>>18310950
There is possibly a book out there that is the Moby Dick of our generation which only a small number of readers know of and which will in time come to be regarded as a masterpiece.

>>18310655
The moment English shed its Germanic roots completely it became a bugman language for retards

>>18310861
Dogshit

>>18310655
Creoles: Did the English take it too far?

>>18310876
Wardine be cry etc etc

>>18310960
My diary desu

>>18310989
Filtered

>>18310655
>eeggerization and americanization of the language. We are living in a new age for English.
Is this a good thing.

>it's another ESL cope thread

>>18312966
>soulless bugman "language" rates languages by information density because bugmen must always find ways to CONSOOM information more efficiently
Nothing unexpected here

>>18312966
ayo this shit be lit af, look at dem lines n sheeeit

>>18312984
>retarded barbarian tongued grug can't find beauty in efficiency
Nothing unexpected here

>>18312966
Irrelevant graph.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190905124520.htm
>>18313023
You can speak ebonics like a kneegger if you want muh efficiency.

>>18313070
>Irrelevant graph.
Irrelevant article. It just shows that inferior languages speed up to cope. Also this has no bearing on the written form.

>>18310655
There really is no middle ground between Shakespeare and text-speak. Fucking juice and globalists! Thou hast taken our womens, musteth thy petulente barsterds stealeth our langwage too? by reducing its forme to mere simplisity and standardisashune?

>>18313102
>It just shows that inferior languages speed up to cope.
Yes, everyone knows English, mate. It's not like they have their own natural rhythm has developed independently.
>Also this has no bearing on the written form.
Neither does your thing. You can communicate the same kind of shit at the end of the day regardless of language.

I don't see you speaking Niggerese yet btw, which is more "efficient" even.

>>18313143
Sorry, I don't even know what you're trying to say here. Your grasp on the supposedly rudimentary English language is poor to say the least.

>>18313184
That's too long. Just say "nigga no get u" and call it a day. Efficiency is all that matters.

>>18313200
>ooo ooo ahh ahh
This is all I see, sorry.

>>18313200
dis nigga be spittin fax

>>18313200

∵ efficiency > ∞

>>18313219
Thou does not speaketh with true Shakespearean tongue

>>18313253
uh sweaty, it's called Elizabethean

Someone explain why people are saying "knee%$@#" for the n-word now? I've seen this across /lit/ lately

>>18313268
it's the new thing, "kneeggers". I don't know who started it.

>>18313219
That's just what English sounds like. You'll get used to it.

>>18310655
I fucking love science bro

>>18312966
>muh information density
cringe

>>18310655
shut it bong