/lit/ - Literature

muscles.
musculature.

strength.
strong.

>>6970789
Emboss
Fruit
Sable
Twilit
Swoop.

>>6970790
What's that around his knees?
And why "olympic casuals"?

>>6970789
fuck
cunt

In before someone posts "cellar door" which is just a retarded meme and not actually a particularly attractive phrase

>>6970789
cellar door

>>6970817
>13:33:33

>>6970827
Yes!!!! I Got in before you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i WIN

>>6970811

knee wraps, protects knees and adds a bit of strength/stability to your lifts

they are pros

>>6970830
actually cellar doornah really though you're a faggot

>>6970790
hnng

english is not a beautiful language

>>6970903

it's the most beautiful language.

>>6970929
explains why there's not one great english poet ever.

>>6970936

Even though i agree with
>>6970903
more than
>>6970929
beauty can be found in all languages.

Meme

acetylene

>>6970952
>beauty can be found in all languages.

it's just most prevalent in English.

>>6970952
>beauty can be found in all languages.
except german

>>6970994
ok bro

Nice

These:

Holy shit I just realized Sonic the Hedgehog is called Sonic because he runs at the speed of sound holy shit

>>6970903
i think there's beauty in african-american slang. no homo.

>>6970789
Discombobulated
Synchronicity
Detrimental
Obtuse

>>6970789

masturbatory

not even lying

>>6970817

I actually really, really like cellar door phonetically.

>>6970995

what the fuck man???

German is exceptionally beautiful, read some Eichendorff or some Rilke

>>6971012

agreed

>>6971047

detrimental is a really nice word imo

>>6970995
German's beauty is in the functionality of the language. Their language encompasses all meanings. There are words in German that are impossible to translate due to how dense they are. Take "weltschmerz" for instance: the feeling of having the entire world on your shoulders. It's a word completely different from, for instance, "morose".

esoteric, arcane, conundrum, and superfluous

>>6971057
World smarts you can say in English, too. Inb4 "smarts and Schmerz are two different words". Lookey here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmerz#Etymologie_und_Synonyme

The carvel corker Karl Kocher caulked the klinker clipper christened Clopper.

>>6971159
That and something about a Klinkit canoe carver

>>6971159
now that is fucking sex

>>6971170
Elvis saying 'thank you, thank you very much.' Is on my list as well

ITT WORDS THAT AREN'T ORIGINALLY ENGLISH

>>6971107

all v good choices

>>6971144

thats not even the point

not a good "translation" either btw

do you even speak German nigga?

>>6970936
Pretty sure the reason for this is that English is such a plastic language that there are no rules at all to master let alone break. Whereas in French for example you have to be a skilled artist, in english you can just make shit up and it'll sound right.

Shakespeare coined like 2000 words, if you could do that today anyone could be a masterful poet. He was a fucken hack i tells you.

>>6970789
bloom

>>6973331
poetry in romance languages is ezmode

Cunt Cock Cuck

>>6970790
Not everyone's a cock-gargling faggot like you tho.

>>6973331
>Shakespeare coined like 2000 words

He didn't. Most of those words were founds in writings of earlier contemporaries. Shakespeare just lived in an era when eveyrybody and their aristocratic patron was inventing words.


>>6970789
I'm a bit of a fag but I like belong, earnest, forlorn and any word in -lorn, light, perhaps, wreath, night, corkscrew, immense, hallow, bellow and most word in -llow except allow which in don't particularly like or dislike.

I also like some words in -oy (inb4 juden) like alloy, joy, and even words that end with a wovel + y like foray.


I'm a native romance language speaker so I don't really like the rare words too obviously taken from latin or french, they just sounds like borrowed words and I've been used to avoid them since school. But the german or celtic words are often surprising, I like them.

"Immense" is an exception since it sounds so great in any language.

moist

>>6973892
I prefer "moisty"

eponymous

At a workshop we once did an exercise where we spent an hour coming up with our favorite, most beautiful words, then wrote a poem using just them.

I had a couple good lines

"sable vodka monolith
systematic sangria exile
Jurassic military stun-gun fury"

worcester

Japanese is ten times the language english ever be.

How does this make you feel?

>>6973962
/a/, pls

Callipygous

>>6973962
but they just group words together in most cases. It would be like saying Goldrepair instead of getting to be more creative with your language.


>more beautiful for having been broken
Sound like a Mishima novel

>>6970789
Senselessness

>>6970789
ajar

>>6973966

>Giving a shit about "information"

>>6973962
and that's why I say

NUKE EM ALL

>>6973966
This image is a rather interesting case study in how meme and false information spread. There was one study by some guys in France who got to this results, and some buzzfeed site inclued it in a short article without mentioning the exact methodology they used (how exactly do you measure the amount of information per syllaba ?).


And somehow it's becoming something that you repost and is taken at face value.

However since the article isn't very confrontational and doesn't come from a high-traffic site, the spread is rather slow and will probably die out within a couple month. I wish I had more data-tracking stuff to observe all the current trends for a month. But a few post here and there are already telling, thanks anon.

>>6973942

The first two verses have a nice thematic, sonority and atmosphere to them. Would make a short film based on them/10

Love loves to love love

Coalescence

effervescent
tranquility
serendipity

>>6970789
Eloquence/eloquent

>>6974192
this tbh

Clamshell
Molten
Fruit

German anon, here: Carnage.
It sounds more brutal than the German "Blutbad". I don't like the flow of English much, but "carnage" almost sounds biblical.

>>6970789
cunt

>>6970789
smegma

>>6970789

Blimey

>>6970789
licorice
ejaculate

>>6975451
I like

Abaddon is a Biblical Hebrew word meaning "a place of destruction".

Petrichor

Pulchritudinous
Epicaricacy
Chatoyant
Panacea
Halcyon
Insouciance
Vestigial
Lithe

>>6976341
A magnificent word and olfactorial experience.

>To take a striking example: what can be more resounding, more resplendent, more suggestive of choral and sculptured beauty, than the word coramen? In reality, however, it merely denotes the rude strap with which a Zemblan herdsman attaches his humble provisions and ragged blanket to the meekest of his cows when driving them up to the vebodar (upland pastures).

>>6970789
AESTHETICS

Metempsychosis

>>6977680
Lovely one. It's used (pretty much to same effect) in the first page of In Search of Lost Time and iin the first page of Dubliners. Dunno why it always struck me.
>>6976397
Noice.

Bioluminescence

I love everything about the word. It seems both scientific and yet magical at the same time. If you don't know, it's when organisms produce a natural light, like glowing mushrooms.

bloodthirsty

>>6973942

Never thought about stun gun but it has a nice tattoo to it

Raspberry

always liked it

crepuscular
elucidate
Brobdingnagian

Facetious

I use the word pretty much every day. I love it.

>>6970789
Artificial

melancholy

>>6977750
with you on crepuscular

Jovial
Bereft
Succinct

This won't be popular but I think Fox is a highly underrated word.

>>6973972
But it's the same in English except we use Latin words

Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon

>>6970995

this meme needs to end

I find the phonology of gross sounding words aesthetically appealing above all others, though I find the properties they are applied to as unpleasant as most.

Squamous
Fleshy
Turgid
Disarticulate
Charnel
Putrescent

>>6971057
Japanese does the same shit and with twice the poetic beauty.

Is there a single thing German can do without sounding like there's vomit in your mouth?

>>6973331
>you can just make shit up and it'll sound right
To people who don't understand English maybe

>>6970995
>>6977997

>I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse

Undergrowth

Bacchanalian
Receptive
Undulate
Hangar
.

The Internet Thunderword

Lolitarghehepcfailmaotfwinrrtheintrnetzomgnotporneetcuntryhardgyunonymousadfrgnosticdedpplulfkinglis!

Hope.

>>6970827
seriously where did this come from
is it donie darko shit

>>6971012
same

Hellenistic
Tranquility
Neon
Purgatory
Gaelic
Lavender

>>6970789
as a native Portuguese speaker:
quench
sunder/asunder
unison
youth
seeth
telltale

>>6979238

Joyce used "quench" a lot

>>6978482
The notion existed prior to Donnie Darko. I've never seen the movie and I know about 'cellar door'.

>>6970789

Vape

Can one word really be beautiful on its own? 2hats the smallest set of words that can be said to have beauty?

>>6970995
9gag tier

cinerescent

mainly becuase I was depressed and my mom texted me out of the blue. Just that one word.
Considering what it means. It's probably the most beautiful word I know at the moment

Giant squid.

>>6979422

I like the word "recondite"

>>6971003
>Holy shit I just realized Sonic the Hedgehog is called Sonic because he runs at the speed of sound holy shit
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>6971047
deleterious
ascendancy
hydroponic

>>6976396
one of the best i tells ya

Words are like people, they're only beautiful when they intermingle.

>>6971195
this

you're all pathetic.

Smug.

>>6971195
>>6980525
English isn't originally English. You fags don't know how language works. I bet you're prescriptivists.

>>6971195
>>6980525

But English is due to become our universal language, based simply on it being the most widely spoken tongue as well as the most amalgamated; it can basically appropriate any foreign word seamlessly; it is The Linguistic Blob. Auf wiedersehen.