/lit/ - Literature

Spanish speaker here.
I like English better, all those one-syllable words make writing easier.

imageboard culture is the gutter of the thought
of course it has to be in English

>>5949636
>incoherent mashup of germanic tribal languages, norse, and latin
>no second person plural
>barely phonetic
>no clicks or glottal stops
>archaic/illogical past tense verbs
>redundancy in alphabet

the list could go on

>>5949636
>actually appealing to 4chan for what makes a language the greatest

we only speak english here because it's the only language you plebs understand

>>5949752
>he thinks glottal stops are patrician

I mean, if someone who spoke 20 different languages (European, Asian, African) and understood them on an accademic level said this about a non-native language I might be inclined to give his opinion a listen, but it's most likely you're just a butthurt Amerilard who can't bring out a "Donde esta el McDonalds?" without having to consult a dictionairy despite having taken three years of Spanish in highschool.

>More English language works in Bloom's western canon than any other
you're right OP

>>5949636
>English
>Best language
>Do you even German/Spanish/French/Italian/Swedish/Hungarian/Latin/Greek/Russian bro?

>>5949636
You're right OP, it's even better than Greek.

>mfw people think the disgusting cockroach language that is Spanish is "sexy"

>>5949636
>In English on an English imageboard website
So if right now some random chuckefucks are arguing in turkish on a turk website that turkish is the best language, therefore turk is best language?

>>5950533
>Spanish/Italian/Swedish/Hungarian/Greek/latin
Spanish is awful, its the worst latin descending language by far, Portuguese is the best one.
Italian is alright, but nothing great been written on it since Dante, there are far better works written in english
Swedish is a shitty ass language, there's not a lot of words
Hungarian also shitty
Greek and Latin are dead.
French is gay

I would agree a top 3 is english / german/ portuguese

>>5950712
>Spanish is awful, its the worst latin descending language by far, Portuguese is the best one.
>Italian is alright, but nothing great been written on it since Dante
>Hungarian also shitty
>French is gay
Why?

>Greek and Latin are dead.
Latin is still used and there is a modern form of Greek.

>>5950734
>taking that 0/10 bait

>implying Hebrew isn't the best language
Silly goys.

>>5950747
:^D

German/Spanish/French/Italian/Swedish/Hungarian/Latin/Greek/Russian

>German

Decent language grammatically. Sounds awful though.

>Spanish,French,Italian

Romance languages sound nice but grammatically are very simple languages.

>Swedish,Hungarian

Hungarian is needlessly complex, Swedish is okay I guess....

>Russian

Sounds bad and makes simple grammar ideas complex

>Latin, Greek

Dead and no

Why don't any of you guys go on the /lit/ omegle tag?

>>5950811
Omegle is pleb. Intellectuals communicate brain to brain directly.

>There are people on this board who can't fluently read Ancient Greek and Classical Latin

That's because English as the imperialistic bourgeois language of production is used against the proletariat and the colonized peoples, and through capital's inevitable self-destruction, it will be replaced by the unimaginably streamlined, versatile language of Yiffrikans.

>>5950830

>tfw this is actually true and you only recently discovered the undernet of infinite regress that enables timeless communication between authors, text, mind and matter

>>5949666
English speaker here.

After reading For Whome the Bell Tolls I think Castilian Spanish sounds pretty great.

>>5949752
>no second person plural

You, you nigger.

>>5949752
Is that John Leguizamo?

>>5950810
>french
>grammatically very simple
I don't think you've ever studied french. I mean it ain't chinese but it's up there for sure.

>>5949636
anglish is good because it has a wonderfully diverse lexicon from all its borrowing, meaning there are several choices that can be made with slightly different sounds and connotations for any given piece of a sentence, and because it has enough spelling diversity to keep things interesting but avoids stupid choices like french or ridiculous complexity of chinese languages.

english is bad because it lends itself to sounding gross when pronounced and because its common form is rapidly being diluted to be less expansive and more vague.

>>5951239
English's capacity for grossness is one of the best things about the language Actually

the honor for best alphabet goes to korean

Danish is objectively the worlds greatest language.

>>5949636
>mfw you are all missing out on Dutch literature

うそだ。

>>5952879
>Not reading Mulisch in its original language

Turbo plebs

>>5952883
>Mulisch

>>5951914
Like swedish but bad, danskjävel

>>5952880
何が嘘ですか。

japanese sounds nice and the sentence structuring is a fun change of pace, but it's cumbersome in practice. s'all that pausing half a second before every sentence and forgetting what's going on halfway through.

>>5949636
>people actually trying to rank languages
whats the point? theres good and bad everywhere. read your translations and get over it

>>5951914
Dansk er fucking lort. 1/4 ord er Engelske.

i'm convinced subject verb object is the most intuitive and logical ordering for any sort of language.

i have been studyng korean, but after 6 years, and 4 total years living abroad, the order is still painful. it is unnatural and nothing will change it for me.

>>5951164

Changing the tenses of verbs is very simple and follows a set structure, like practically all the romance languages.

Of course there is complexity in all languages, but some are more complex than others. French has the ability to be complex, it just so happens that it remains relatively simple.

lol there are some people out there who think languages with conjugations are better than english.

Everybody laugh.

>french
>equal stress on each syllable
>these frogs claim to have a lyrical language

>>5949752
'You' is the second person plural.

'Thou' is the singular

>>5953026
thou art of the homo disposition.

>>5952936
power levels is a hell of a drug

>>5953051
rekt

>>5949669
>the thought
ESL detected.

>>5949752
>valuing phoneticism a.k.a. minimalism
It's like I'm really in the 70s.

>not arabic
get off it m8

>>5949789
This

Why do you anons keep falling for these b8 threads that produce a huge pile of nothing worthwhile?

>>5953026
Actually ye is second person plural, thou is the singular informal form, but only the odd northerner uses thou and no one uses ye, so both are irrelevant.

>>5953159
has it ever occurred to you, monsieur, that some find ataraxia in pain? and here i thought YOU were the nietzsche scholar, monsieur!!! what a joke!!! en garde, let us brawl like men, monsieur!!

>>5953159
You mean, why do i post on /lit/?

I speak and write American thank you

>>5949636

What about Icelandic?

It’s perhaps the most pure and well protected language today and for the last thousand years.

It’s relatively rich in literature and poetry for such a low population.

It looks pretty and sounds nice.

Deyr fé,
deyja frændur,
deyr sjálfur ið sama.
En orðstír
deyr aldregi
hveim er sér góðan getur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtemrZ7-pj0

Why not?

Why does it have to be a romance language?

>>5953051

>>5953289
how similar are all the nordic languages to eachother? like would someone from iceland be able to understand swedish without having studied it at all?

>>5953175
strangely enough, ye is commonly used in ireland

roman languages are the best for pronunciation as english other 'germanic' ones are difficult if not ridiculous. For writing, itilian is is best if not french ofc

>>5953289
>>5953336
I'll attempt to translate it, and I'm Dutch.

>Deyr fé
There are
>deyja fraendur
Your friends
>deyr sjálfur ið sama.
they're the same as you?

I don't know.. I can't do this, I'm sorry.

>>5949636
>implying you speak any other languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqOoC9ytimc

>>5953408
translate this: kanker

>>5953457
Never heard it before in my life.

>>5953336

Somalis, Pigs and the oil sheiks can understand each other more or less perfectly and Norwegians and Danes share the same written language.

The Icelandic's speak more or less the language the viking settlers spoke when they got of the boat a thousand years ago. And the rest of the nords can understand a few words, but thats it.

>>5953408

It's an old viking saying. Vikings had a big hard on for sayings.

Cattle die,
kinsmen die
you yourself die;
There's one thing
which never dies:
the judgment of a dead man's life.

>>5952919
what pauses are you talking about?

>>5953545
Ah, it's one of those languages where when I see the translation, I get most of the words, but I can't make the links myself yet. There are a lot of English/German roots in there.

>>5949636
English permits that a woman 'fucks' a man. This is proof of how debilitating this language is.

>>5950810
Swedish is a boring language, because it's pretty much english and german mashed together and made simpler

>>5950936
shit, better get on it.

>>5953905
maybe, but our national author is a based schizophrenic misogynist commie christian mystic.

Portuguese is the shit.

>>5950712

>>5953724
>never had an energetic partner

>>5953336

It's similar on a level where if you have a problem making yourself understood to a fellow Scandinavian you just talk louder and slow down.

Portuguese is perfect.

>>5954891
>muh huehuehue

>>5954891
ugh

right write die dye bare bear butt but stare stair

the list goes on. but english is the only language that can phonetically duplicate every other language, except the clicks and shit from africa.

>>5954900
You're thinking about the other kind of Portuguese, the one in South America

>>5956074

I rarely see an English native speaking Spanish and not sounding like a retard.
And by rarely I mean never.

>>5953592
because sentences are sort of "backwards" (not really, but with subject, object, and everything else jumbled at the front and verbs at the end), native speakers tend to pause to think out entire sentences before starting to speak, then rush through the sentence, and then pause before the next one. really long sentences with lots of sub-phrases can also lead to the speaker forgetting what was actually being said in the outermost sentence and messing up the verb.

Swahili is the most beautiful language. German is very logical. English is most interesting because it is basically the inbred love child you get as a result of all the languages of Europe having an orgy.