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>giving affectionate nicknames to authors (Witty, Dosto)

>> No.5105431

>not saying luddy dubs
>2014

>> No.5105432

>romanticizing ancient greece

>> No.5105433

>>5105432

>hellenising ancient rome

>> No.5105492
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>> No.5105503

>>5105492

Jamba Juice.

>> No.5105549
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5105549

This image always pissed me off for some reason. It's like admitting intelectual laziness.

>> No.5105576

>Ruggles
>Walrus
>Towelin'

>> No.5105586

>>5105549
Yeah, I get what you mean.

It's this "caring about literature is for high school only" point of view.

>> No.5105611

Frog with gun to feels-man's head is best frog

>> No.5105648

>>5105549
I guarantee you the people who made that primarily read genre fiction

>> No.5106123
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>>5105611
you mean frog and feels-man staring at the city and pondering about life

>> No.5106129

Trying to emulate or affect some part of their favorite author's life.

Seen especially with Hemingway or Bukowski fans.

>> No.5106137

>Sugartits
>Fatso
>Throttle

>Destroyovski
>Toystory

>> No.5106140
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>>5105549
Then you'll love this pic.

>> No.5106148

Anything i do, dolfacel. Sorry sorry sorry ... I'm flemish ... We all are dreadfull piple

>> No.5106150

>>5105430
>make whiny meta threads

>> No.5106151

>>5106129
>emulating Hemingway

Do people actually do this ? I mean taking part in some conflict in a shithole just to live the literary life ?

>> No.5106287

>>5106140
This is supposed to be ironic, right?

>> No.5106295

>>5106151
No, just romanticizing alcoholism mainly

>> No.5106318

>>5106150
>make meta comment about meta nature of thread

epic simply epic

>> No.5106355

>>5106129
And Kafka. Though you don't usually meet these people.

>> No.5106362

I refer to cormac mccarthy as cormac because saying mccarthy isn't very specific. I refer to bukowski as buk cus that's how he refers to himself a lot and it's quicker. I also call hemingway papa sometimes cus it's funny and suits him. That's it. I await lit's approval.

>> No.5106368

>>5106362
You shan't be receiving it

Shan't I say

>> No.5106375

>>5106368
Very well. I shall fall upon my sword.

>> No.5106401

>yeah bro haha i've read like 30 books since i got the Kindle! I'm such a reading nerd now

>> No.5106416

Nicknames for composers are worse
>Shosty
for Shostakovich

>> No.5106422

>>5106287
No, look up that guy's other web comics and prepare for maximum cringe.

>> No.5106423

>>5106401
>I got a kindle
>what do you read?
>read? Pfffffff... I watch Netflix on it

>> No.5106434

>>5106422
But... it's only bad jokes about animals. Literally nothing else.

>> No.5106446

>>5106401
I for one am glad that people read, regardless how they do it.

>>5106423
On the Fire maybe.

>> No.5106573

>>5106422
it could just be an ironic account i do similar things with my own web comic personas like in one i write about sonic as he appears in history (like what if he was a spartan general)

and as a separate author personal i draw this guy and he goes to the library and dances and in each comic the lbrary says "keep rhose funky moves down!"

its funny because i am god sort of.

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>>5105549
Superior /lit/ OC

>> No.5106618

>>5106129
How do you mean?

>> No.5106634

>>5105549
I always took that as criticising the overzealousness of high school English teachers in finding deeper meanings where often there are none (The curtains usually are just blue), not that literary criticism itself is useless.

>> No.5107374

>>5105648
>I guarantee you the people who made that primarily don't read
FTFY

>> No.5107385

>>5106148
are you fucking insane you psycho

>> No.5107399

I always refer to Faulkner as "Willy F"
jokes on you for not connecting with your favorite authors

>> No.5107414

>>5107399
I address Kafka by his first name when the other person know who we are talking about, because for some reason it throws people off when you call Kafka "Franz". They seem to forget there is a normal person behind that mysterious bulk of ideas.

>> No.5107443

>>5106634
>I always took that as criticising the overzealousness of high school English teachers in finding deeper meanings where often there are none
I get that, but that pretty much never happens. HS English is largely surface-level analyses (Catcher in the Rye is about how everyone is fake and maybe so is Holden! Macbeth is spoooooky!)

>> No.5107446

>>5105430
Nabokov called him "Dusty". What a fucking tryhard.

>> No.5107458

>>5107443
I used to have conversations with my obviously well educated English teacher and he gave me books of his to read that he thought I could engage with. Use resources while you can, he even let me keep some of the books.

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>>5105430
Fuck you, I love giving nicknames.

I named my cat Flan too.

>> No.5107682

>>5105430
b-but old schoppy

>> No.5107689

>>5106140
>conscious

>> No.5107713

/lit/ has conditioned me into calling Pynchon "Pinecone."

I also make an effort to butcher Nietzsche's name everytime I pronounce it aloud, usually throwing a couple extra syllables in the middle.

oh yeah look at me tryin

>> No.5107734

>>5107678
Abi?

>> No.5107744

>>5105492
Old Jamesy

>> No.5107768

>>5107713
>I also make an effort to butcher Nietzsche's name everytime I pronounce it aloud, usually throwing a couple extra syllables in the middle.
I do this as well, except often I'm just lazy and only pronounce it as "neeches"

>> No.5107792

>>5107713
>>5107768
>Goethe
>go-ethay

>Wagner
>wag-ner

>> No.5107796

>>5107768
I usually go with something like "Nyeteshukuhzuh," but I admire the simplicity

>> No.5107799

>>5106416
I always call Schubert Schooby

>> No.5107838

>>5107734
Hm, Abi? I'm trying, but I don't know who that may be.

>> No.5107850

>>5107799
And Tchaikovsky tchai tea

>> No.5107857

Should we call him Titus Livius Patavinus instead of Livy?

>> No.5107883

>>5107857
good ol pluto

>> No.5107889

consul chickpea and emperor little bots

>> No.5107895
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5107895

Heidiggy
Hedergedegory
Hei-de-diggidy-doo
Diggy heiser
Heidedingalong my dingalongdingdong
Hei-de-diggery-doo
Heideverse
Heidegrassi
Hei-dasein-is-upside-down
Heidege-a-go-go
Hi, Digger
Oh-hai-degger (you're my favorite customer).
Heideguilmon-digivolves-to-metal-heidegarurumon

>> No.5107913

>>5105430

Fuck you, OP. I always add an affectionate honorific when referring to authors in my liking.

Dosto-kun
Nabo-kun
Faulky-kun
Kaf-kun
Schopy-kun
Neechee-chan
Py-Py-chan
HerMel-sama
Joyce-sama
Witt-sama

>> No.5107952

>>5107913
Kaf-kun is kinda cute, but really, this just makes you come off as a tryhard or a retard. A rehard, if you want.

>> No.5107997

>bookmarking your pages with some pressed leaf

>> No.5108011

>>5107792
I pronounce Goethe ''goatee''.

>> No.5108021

Press flowers?

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>>5107913

>> No.5108039

>>5108021
T-thanks for reminding me to check on my presses.

>> No.5108046

>>5107895
>Heideguilmon-digivolves-to-metal-heidegarurumon
I came so hard I would ask you to marry me.

>> No.5108141

>>5107792
>Portishead
>Portis-head

>> No.5108146

>>5108141
pot-is-head

>> No.5108235

>>5108039
Sure thung' kid ... & awwaai!

>> No.5108252

>>5107713
>Knee-Aight-Zee-Cheeeee

>> No.5108257

>>5105430
i use them as shorthand.

>> No.5108264

I call Schopenhauer 'Schopes'

It stems from a period of psychosis in my life where I believed Schopenhauer was very wrong in his thinking, and that I could actually talk to him and he would hear me. So I would say something inflammatory, and then finish off with an 'Eh Schopes?' to try to rile him up.

It was the best time of my life.

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5108361

>Captain Kierk

>> No.5108374

>>5105549
I hear lots of people act like allegories and aesops in fiction basically don't exist unless they're spoon fed to the reader.

>> No.5108377

I call my penis Biggie.

>> No.5108385

>>5108264
you're an idiot

>> No.5108391

>>5108385
Fuck you Schopes

>> No.5108395

I hate it when people call Plato Plato too OP. I mean, what is this the WWE? Are we going to have some guy called the Rock leading our belief system next? What the heck were they thinking?

>> No.5108415

>>5108395
I love the fact that Plato actually was a pankration champion alongside being a philosopher.

>> No.5109502

>>5108395
> Are we going to have some guy called the Rock leading our belief system next?

Or worse yet, to name our more gifted lawyer after their facial defects.

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>>5108391

hahah

>> No.5109521

>>5105433
teheheheHAHAHAHA

>> No.5109527

>>5108395

>xenophon

why just because he has a weird voice?
fuckin h8rs

>> No.5109528

>>5105549
>I understand the author's intention better than people who have actually studied his books
Accusations of Dunning-Kreuger get thrown around a lot, but I think it's fair here.

>> No.5109531

>>5107792
>Camus
>kah-moos

>> No.5109537

>>5109531

>wit-gen-steen

kie-erk-e-guard

>> No.5109538

>>5107792
>>5108011
what about just straight up "goth"?

>> No.5109925

>>5107913
> Nabo-kun

It works almost TOO well

>> No.5110471

>>5109538
I've always said "go-eth". Am I retarded?

>> No.5110483

>>5110471
Th generally is a silent h in German.

>> No.5110488

>>5110471
Göötte.

>> No.5110494

>>5110488
Geeth

>> No.5110508

>not calling dostoyevsky Dozzy Dozzborne

>> No.5110523

agreed with OP

>ironically appropriate negro speak while waxing philosophical becuz lel such contrast
>making threads about having writer's block
>trying to rationalize your alcoholism by pointing out your favourite authors

>> No.5111385

>>5107792
>Goethe
Gertah.

i heard max von zydow say it in an old movie. so it's probably right.

>edit:
actually just looked it up on youtube and it is right even though people are arguing it.

>> No.5113207

>>5109537
HAHA so much this

>>5111385
I always thought it was ger-the

>> No.5113208

>>5109531
... how do you pronounce it?

I've read the stranger and sisyphus and have no idea.

>> No.5113313

>>5108374
>aesops

inigomontya.jpg

>> No.5113323

>>5107895
Heishiggydigger

>> No.5114304

>>5113208
kamoo

>> No.5114348

>>5114304
Is it KAH-moo or kah-MOO

>> No.5114359

>don kwiksote

>> No.5114415

>>5114359
Why was it even changed to quixote in the first place?

>> No.5114417

>>5114348
kah-MOO
>the cow goes kah-MOO

>> No.5114449

>>5114359
Just looked it up to make sure I'm saying it correctly and apparently people say quick-SOT

what

>> No.5114467

>>5114449
I thought it was qui-ho-tay

>> No.5114525

>>5114449
>>5114467
it's qui-ho-tay in spanish
you didn't know "quixote" is not the original spelling?

>> No.5114543
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5114543

You don't like Vladdy Nabs?

>> No.5114544

>>5113207
It's kinda like Guhhr-tah. The 'r' isn't really pronounced. Not that it matters.

>> No.5114609

>>5107895
>no Heididgeridoo

>> No.5114644

>>5109531
camus

old form of

chemise

so, ka-miss

>> No.5114691

jacky-roller
jerry token
hyperdiggler
the neetch
deef walrus
shop-top houser
willy shaker
the soosemeister
toystory
stevie kingsly
no-robba
iron flamingo
tommy clan-clan
beaty p.
damp + round
seese leweeze
dreamy koots

>> No.5114752

>>5114525
I guess not.
I always pronounced it qui-ho-tay.
It used to be Quijote?

>> No.5114967

>>5114752
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quijote_de_la_Mancha

>> No.5114985

>>5114644
>chemise

shuh-meez

>> No.5115095

>>5106148
biggest shitposter of all time

>> No.5115098

>>5106150
>>5106318
babbys still in charlie kaufman phase

>> No.5115105

>>5106416
I call bach ba

>> No.5115110

>>5115105
>not J-Sebby B.

>> No.5115114

>>5114525
It isn't? I thought it was written like that but pronounced like 'qui-ho-tay' or 'quick-sot'

>> No.5115117

>>5114644
that's wrong

it's ka-moos

>> No.5115215

>>5115095
*tips fedora snarf

>> No.5115223

>>5105430
>he thinks these are affectionate nicknames and not just laziness

>> No.5115254

>>5115215
Correction *tips fedora orko

>> No.5115289

>>5115223
Hahah this. So many authors have such long or complex names. When talking about them in a casual setting is best to refer to them with nicknames. I actually call Fyodor, Dusty and Arthur, Schopes.

>> No.5115418

>>5115289

I'll be damned if anyone's going to fucking disrespect Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño in such a way, you piece of shit.

>> No.5115436

>>5115418
you mean the Caldoozle?

>> No.5115598

>>5106123
>pepe and wojak
I'm afraid I'm going to refer to them as this from now on

>> No.5115604
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>>5115598
Those are their proper names, retard

>> No.5115631

>>5115604
>proper
>retard
The fact that you try this hard to express your superiority complex over two comics is hilarious

>> No.5115655

>>5115418

Yo llamo a Barca, el Barco y Barreda, Barrea. Vete pal carajo. Es mas facil. Y no, yo noy acentuar un carajo. Decir el nombre entero es pretencioso.

>> No.5115664

>>5115631
You used more words, m8, you tried harder
Me: 1
You: 0

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>>5115664

>> No.5115672

>>5107713
>When I was 13 I used to pronounce it:
"Nigh-eet-zuh-shuh"

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>>5115672
>not purposely pronouncing any strange or foreign word in the shittiest way possible, particularly when you're around people who actually speak that language
>not hanging out with spics and calling "quesadillas" "kwes-a-dilluhs"

>> No.5115698

>>5107883
I was waiting for this.

>> No.5115711

Cormy
Pinchy
Joycey
Wally
Towely
Faulkny

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>>5115631
officially #rekt by
>>5115664

>> No.5117652

>>5106140
I have a hard time handling this comic on so many levels

>confusing the author and the persona
>misreading the poem to the point of thinking it's an eulogy of the raven
>dismissing a valid interpretation that is spoonfed to you when you actually read the poem

>> No.5119202

>>5107913
>Py-Py-chan
Sounds cute as fuck.

>> No.5119337

>>5109537
Dane here. Kierkegaard is pronounced Keerkuhgó

>> No.5119347

OK guise but real talk

How do you actually pronounce "Nabokov"?

>> No.5119482

>>5107913
Nigga that's kawaii

>> No.5119493

>>5119347
Nuh-BOKE-off

>> No.5119532

>>5119347
Nabokov

>> No.5119535

>>5119337
"Nu vil jeg fortælle dig om Soren Aabye Kierkegaard."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPpRYO0sBOM

Not an easy language to convey through text, eh?

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Totle-chan
Tommy-kun

>> No.5119548

>>5119347
Nabokov. Exactly how it's spelled, without Sting's fucking downsyndrome lilting.

>> No.5119771

>>5115684
yeah i do this all the time.
fajitas - fu-gee-taz.

>> No.5120141

>>5106591
Nice to see someone using my OC.