/lit/ - Literature

START WITH THE GREEKS

France honhonhon

>>6095097
What language are we all speaking?

England by far, next is Greece then Egypt.

>>6095115
Feels good lads.

>>6095097
"BEST" IS SUBJECTIVE. YOUR QUERY SHOULD REFLECT THIS.
"IN YOUR OPINION WHICH COUNTRY AND PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THE WORLD'S BEST CULTURE AND LITERATURE"
THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE "ACCURATE"

America
Greece
China
In that order.

>>6095115

>Egypt

LOL they haven't been relevant in like 3000 years

>>6095097
why is reddit so awful

>>6095097
>nationalism
Fuck off.

>>6095126
>"BEST" IS SUBJECTIVE.

Not if you use an objective metric. Duh.

>>6095114
>>6095125
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licóur
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye,
So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

>>6095128
Yet they still exported better culture than France, Spain and Arabia.

>>6095114
>>6095125
>>6095140
Mandatory reading for all Anglophiles:

http://producer.csi.edu/cdraney/2011/278/resources/Tolkien%20-%20The%20Monsters%20and%20the%20Critics.pdf

>>6095144
Still winning a thousand years later.

>>6095141

>muh giant triangles

yea, neat.

>>6095154
They are pretty cool tho.

>ayy

>>6095139
Fine sheila.

>>6095126
Did you mix your trips up?

>>6095114
No se tu mi negro, pero yo el de cervantes.

>>6095129
it's mediocrity in internet form

>>6095141
Egyptian culture is trash. Their art is all stuck in a single style that literally did not change except for one retarded Pharaoh

They have no lit except for "Le book of the dead XD" which is pretty much an instruction book so thats like having a lego builders guide be lit

They literally made pyramids and mummies. Also their symbols are cool otherwise they did fuck all

>>6095218
What?

>>6095226
lol

>>6095129
http://imgur.com/a/IyKQT
https://www.reddit.com/user/ChristineHMcConnell

>>6095226
>tfw pleb before plebs existed

>>6095226
;^)

>>6095226
Its really funny how Egyptian artists reused the "smiting pose" for literally 4 thousand years.

>>6095218
There are so many errors in that sentence, it proves Anglo superiority.

>>6095312
Reminds me of another pose.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
- Matthew 6:10

>>6095226
>I haven't heard of any novels therefore they didn't write any
Nice one tell another

>>6095344
>actually replying to /britpol/ shitposters

>>6095097

It's just a woman in a dress decorating a cake. What the fuck is wrong with these people?

>>6095347
>Can you not?
>Seriously?
>Wow just wow

>>6095097
Greeks nigga no doubt

>>6095226
And beer.

>>6095355
Homo.

>>6095344
>>earliest surviving document from 18th century bce
Older than Ovid, the odyssey, and the bhagvati Gita
#rekt

>>6095226
>Egyptian culture is trash. Their art is all stuck in a single style that literally did not change except for one retarded Pharaoh

we already know this, Egypt is always going to be bottom tier crap.

>>6095355

is it fair to say Greece + Anglo-Saxons are the best in general and the world owes them everything?

>>6095503
Aye.

>>6095319
Wait what's in the first picture

>>6095503
>Anglo Saxons

It was the normans who brought over culture and turned the barbarians into actual civilised people.

>>6095536

>barbarians

no such thing, they were civilized already. The romans just hated the fact they couldnt conquer them and called them barbarians, derogaltoraly

>>6095127
>america
>given the world the best culture
>300 yo country which was a colony
>Greece, Italy, China didn't contribute as much as Murica

Roman Empire, France, maybe China or Spain come third.

>>6095671
Don't be a dick, anon just missed the order

>>6095519
Evelyn de Rothschild.

All good literature and culture would find nauseating the thought to restricting human expression to nation-state and racial lines.


This thread is the very definition of irony.

>>6095548
The Romans called them barbarians because they got the word from the Greeks, which the Greeks used to mean foreigners, essentially. Romans used it to mean not Latin or Greek, and then later on to mean anyone who wasn't in the Roman Empire.

They were barbarians by definition.

All good literature and culture would find nauseating the thought of restricting human expression to nation-state and racial lines.


This thread is the very definition of irony.

>>6095679
>They were barbarians by definition.

typically the term 'foreigner' can get a negative connotation.

It happens in japan and thailand, the word for foreigner is often turned into an insult.

>>6095681

your post is a perfect case of: "into the trash it goes"

>restricting human expression

who is doing this?

>>6095690

My post is the only valuable post here.


>who is doing this


What is this thread about, if not chest-thumping appropriating other people's work as your own, just because you happen to be from the same country/culture.

>>6095697
>What is this thread about

It's about which countries/peoples gave the world the best culture and literature, so far.

Did something trigger you, my dear?

>>6095710

Your retardation is alarming, even for a 4channer.

>>6095097

Greece, India, and Germany.

>england
>having "culture"
Even the british know how little culture they actually have.

>>6095725

England controlled most of the world, you don't notice their culture because it's so pervasive, like the air we breathe and the language we speak...it's like a default setting now.

>>6095719

Teach me.

>>6095727

>using customs in place of "culture"

You guys have so little culture you use the incorrect definition of it. We're not talking about habits and social structures, we're talking about art and intellectual achievements.

>>6095734
>art and intellectual achievements

that's only one aspect of culture

>customs

that word was not mentioned, but it's also an aspect of a country's culture.

>>6095727
>England controlled most of the world, you don't notice their culture because it's so pervasive, like the air we breathe and the language we speak...it's like a default setting now.

Yes, and it's not a great culture. Utilitarian, merchant, comfort culture. Jewish culture is better than English.

>>6095757
>>6095697

you sound like one of those people who would comment like this (pic related), or like in OPs pic.

>>6095831

They see art or culture that is wholesome and beautiful and immediately want to 'diversify' it with ugliness and lesser stock

>>6095727
you do know that english was chosen because its a very simple language and easily understandable to even the most backward bush niggers ? :^)

>>6095834
>wholesome and beautiful

those commenters are retards, but those photos are an awful kitsch

>>6095831
>problematic
gotta love feminist jargon

>>6095854
You sound like a problematic person.

>>6095873
We are probably all problematic if you ask the right feminist.

But, yea i imagine i am extra problematic somehow.

>>6095757
In what way?
I think this should be judged by the amount of people.
Sure , the swedes, as an example, didnt create as much worthy art or ideas as the English speaking world but they are only a few million people.

Is the question trying to discern which people could be said to have been the most productive and contributing? Or is it just trying to ascertain which languages spread the fastest?

>>6095097

France.

>>6095114

>What language are we all speaking?

That doesn't mean English-speaking culture & literature are the best ones.

>>6095097
its all subjective, there are no qualities that would make one culture better than another

>>6095503
Greeks, Romans. Quit sucking your own dick

>>6095536
Liar.

>>6096754
You'll never understand lad.

>>6096788
White Power dubs confirm.

>>6096788
You can't say your culture is everything white
That's like a a Italian claiming his culture is everything brown (Spaniards, Greeks, Cubans,Egyptians, Mexicans,ect.)

>>6095519
reflection on the table

it's why there's reflection pools around certain monuments

>>6096834
We know whats ours mate.

>>6095836
>very simple language
It has the largest vocabulary of unique-meaning words in the world, its pronunciation is fucked, nearly all its verbs are irregular somehow, and it has some of the most complicated grammar of any Indo-European language ever. English is not a "simple" language by any measure.

>>6095114
The most average language.

>>6096894
I'm going to need a fucking citation on that.

>>6095353
>It's just a woman in a dress decorating a cake
It isn't, though. It's extremely fake, to the point where I'm assuming it's done intentionally. Look at the fucking thing, it's hilarious. Wearing a white dress and a pearl necklace while decorating a cake in the living room, surrounded by obviously unushed shiny kitchen utensils (including the decorating bag she's supposedly using), while behind her are not one, but two hanging clocks of a dark wood matching the furniture? She's even got a halo! If the absurdity isn't at least part of the intended effect I'd be surprised.

White British obviously. Britain is the centre of civilization and the British are the most intelligent race.

>>6097673
This is something that both the attackers and defenders of those pictures should be reading.

Really, both /pol/ and whater SJWs are used as boogeymen whenever people feel like it should understand the concept of separation and think about how it's affecting their lifes http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/separation.html

>>6097079
English has iambic pentameter, over twenty vowels and over one million words in it's lexicon.

You don't have shit.

>>6096788
>>6096890
Ha, I'm Irish and we weren't even considered white by the British or the Yanks until the 20th Century.

The Brits used to send anthropologists here to confirm their beliefs that the Irish were simian.

Now the fucking stormfront losers use a Celtic cross as their symbol. How ironic.

Race-power babbies and nationalists are so damn pathetic.

>>6097763

>>6097778
What a redundant sign.

>>6095114
>different people speaking the same, easy language so that everyone understands everyone = english speaking nations have the best culture and literature

>Ctrl+f
>only one "Germany"/no Deutschland

Wow sure is "germoney am Nazis" in here

>>6097779
+1

>>6098050

germany is responsible for most of our current philosophy, so ya, its breddy gud

>>6097779

>>6098253
You mean Jewish philosophers living in Germany

>>6098253
nice semen demon, blacked.com when

>>6098358
Louis pls

>>6098358
mah nigga

>>6098314

no, the big names weren't jewish.

But I like how you imply that Jews can't really be German.

>>6098358
>>6098384

>>6098449
>2015
>not being a cuck

>>6098452
Shouldn't you be taking care of your daughters right now or something?

>>6095154
>implying the engineering to create them wasn't a gigantic feat of genius

MUH ALIENS

>>6098467

>>6095519
You; when you're finally an oldfag

>>6095734
KEK. London has the largest collection of art in the world.

LONDON
O
N
D
O
N

>>6098452
I've heard it's the thinking man's fetish.

>>6098449

I agree those are disgusting comments.

>>6098507
>LONDON
>O
>N
>D
>O
>N

>>6098490
what is he an actual cuck? typical irish

Why are the majority of muricans so ignorant towards the rest of the world? When I visited your country, everything did feel so insular and self circulating. Other countries would hardly be mentioned on the news.... Maybe I was watching the wrong trash channels, but still

>>6098523

he's more mexican/jew than irish.

>>6098358
>>6098384

>F3
>Russia
>0/0

What's wrong with you?

>>6098520
This video will educate you on the excellence of
LONDON
O
N
D
O
N

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCKVD9578eQ

>>6095548
Stop making shit up.

>>6095097
ARGENTINA
R
G
N
T
I
N
A

>>6098545
London isn't part of England.

>>6095097
Why Italy of course.

>>6098253
Christ, she doesn't even have a nose.

>>6098270
goddamn it karl

>>6095115
>England
>culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAhEFuq62-I

>>6095126
to add to this, it should be relative to the size of the nation

>>6098662

it's a button nose, cute as fuck.

>>6098720
It's not fully developed is what it is.

>>6097673

Of course it's fake. It's a fucking picture.

>>6097673
She's an artistic photographer, you dumb fuck. This isn't supposed to be just a shot of her at home.

>>6095211
HA. No, just doing an impression.

It's a shitty /pol/ thread anyway.

>>6098896
>It's a shitty /pol/ thread anyway.

/lit/ has had enough of the alternative.