/lit/ - Literature

>cliché saying in an academic work

>paradox

he's a sweaty guy

>trite aphorism
>*winces*

>>6375580
For(1) you(2).(3)
(1)used as a function word to indicate purpose. In this sense the speaker is a big guy for that who he is talking to.
(2)referring to poster in which but so this post is responding to.
(3)indication that the meme has ended.

He was right though.

99% of idioms are filtered out so as you don't see the forest for the trees. These sayings are ubiquitous for a reason, and when we ignore them we ignore the few universal bites of wisdom from our ancestors.

Why do you think everybody misinterprets "turn the other cheek" to mean "be a little bitch and ignore people who wrong you"?

>Well, I have trouble parsing your question. Genteelism seems to me to be an overly charitable way to characterize them. They're like Puff words, like using "Japanese man" instead of nip. Which in 99 cases out of a hundred is stupid. Or person for woman. More syllables it's just puffed up. Uhh. Why say African-American rather than nigger? Everyone knows what nigger means. There's fewer words, and I think technically, given the African roots, it should be "Person of Color" if you're going to use African-American. So if you're saying African-American and Black American, you're in a very high-level way messing up grammatically but would anyone want to say Person of Color? No! So you don't say African-American. But you notice this is the down side of starting to pay attention, you start noticing all of the people who say "Chinese man" rather than "Chinaman", why did they just take up 1/3rd of a second of my lifetime making me parse "Chinese man" rather than "Chinaman" to me? And you start being bugged. But you get to be more careful and attentive in your own writing so you become an agent of light and goodness rather than the evil that's all around.

>>6375622
>don't see the forest for the trees
>wisdom from our ancestors

Are you being ironic here?

>nonfiction writing
>author invents neologisms for already well-understood concepts

>>6375446

>what is Dostoevski summed up in two words

>>6375743
>1416864852582.png
>not le smug nabokov pepe shiggy face

I watched that video yesterday, wow he is so spectacularly awkward.
The camera man insulting him must have felt bad

>>6376167
It's probably why he killed himself. Him and that cunt Rose murdered him.

My Haitian loved the word banal, without a doubt.

>>6376167
He was awkward, but that camera man made me so fucking mad. You don't talk that way to someone you ASKED to interview. holy shit I get mad thinking about it.

Dumb dfw posters.

>PRONOUNCING "BANAL" AS "BAY · NAL".

>>6376955
I kinda think the camera man didn't fully understand the meaning of pontification and just wanted to use big words to impress DFW.

>Which is completely SCREWING ME.
>pause
>i jus-
>I'm kidding
>You are, I can tell you're very reflective.
>...
>I just shoot the pictures
>...
>Anytime..

>>6377299
>>6376955
>>6376260
>>6376167

I thought cameramen weren't supposed to talk, like ever.

>>6377250
>that gif is gonna start playing any time soon

>>6377875
isn't it working for you? maybe you should refresh the page or something, it should work.

>>6377875
See if this one works, anon.

>>6378066
>read the whole comic, closed it right as the .gif changed
>had to open it again to see what I missed

I can't even get jump scared right

>>6378066
Would y'all stop posting this fucking gif, it's giving me P T S D