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Anonymous Wed May 16 17:57:08 2018 No.11164465 [Reply] [Original]

What's the most /lit/ language?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 17:59:31 2018 No.11164479 >>11164465 संस्कृतम्

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:03:54 2018 No.11164497 English /thread go home

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:11:46 2018 No.11164543 This, but youre still an idiot for /threading your own post.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:12:55 2018 No.11164546 German

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:13:11 2018 No.11164548 Polski

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:13:48 2018 No.11164552 esperanto

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:24:27 2018 No.11164609 French, English or Russian, or all the above

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:24:36 2018 No.11164610 I dont know any German but its probably Chinese.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:25:32 2018 No.11164613 kay(f) bop(t)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 18:35:28 2018 No.11164655 >>11164465 slav >тфв мoй cлoвapь этo плoхи Ж У C T

Anonymous Wed May 16 19:07:05 2018 No.11164775

>>11164465
>MY language of course

If you rate the /lit/ness of a language based on amount/quality of works written in it, it's most likely English, but if what you care about is the amount of /lit/erary devices it provides than the question becomes much more interesting. I think in the end it all comes back to the culture surrounding language and it's use, not the language itself, and any sufficiently developed language would be equally /lit/. Athough it could be argued some sets of rules help the development of complex cultural phenomena better than others I don't think the differences between modern languages are big enough to imact it. Out of the two languages I know well enough to analyse Polish is the more complex one, and in my experience the use of literary devices it provides over English doesn't lead to greater complexity of the graph of associations evoked than could be achieved using English. Don't get me wrong, it's completely different, I'm not speaking about translatability, but the percievable complexity of meaning behind the symbols was for me comparable when reading my favourite authors in those two languages.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 19:08:43 2018 No.11164781 File: 88 KB, 350x350, the son.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What is the most /lit/ language and why is it Hebrew?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 19:09:15 2018 No.11164784 >>11164465 Love

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 19:53:51 2018 No.11164951 >>11164465 Latin, German, and English. Definitely not Spanish or Russian.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 19:55:09 2018 No.11164953 Epic Greek

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 20:39:26 2018 No.11165108 >>11164465 English is the most useful literary language due to the volume of translated work. Russian has the best native literary heritage.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 21:16:26 2018 No.11165230 File: 162 KB, 2894x2300, Beautiful.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11164784

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 21:57:48 2018 No.11165373 >>11164479 this

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 22:00:25 2018 No.11165380 >>11164465 >English>German>>Russian>French>>>Spanish>Italian

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 22:01:54 2018 No.11165382 >>11164951 This, spanish is cancer and very few works make it look good. t. Argie

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 22:09:06 2018 No.11165402 >>11164465 Latin

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 22:11:22 2018 No.11165406 File: 38 KB, 600x511, 6e5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11164655

Anonymous Wed May 16 22:20:02 2018 No.11165432

>>11165108
I like to hope or imagine that Germans and French have translated more literature than we have. They have had more time, too. English was sheep shag speak until centuries after the French moved in.

I think the question is too complex to answer; if you narrowed it down to a time period or type of work it would be easier to answer. Japan has the most insular culture with a well developed, occasionally symbolic language, and are proven adaptable to modern literary trends, so I shit out this thought in lieu of an answer.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 16 23:22:12 2018 No.11165686 Romance languages Every barbaric germanigger language sounds like shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 03:20:56 2018 No.11166359 1. memegreek 2. memescrit 3. japanese :)

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 03:36:54 2018 No.11166393 >>11166359 >japanese >the most famous literary work is naruto really makes you think

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 04:51:41 2018 No.11166533 >>11165382 Mientes.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 04:57:55 2018 No.11166547 >>11164479 एतत् सत्यं अस्ति

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:08:56 2018 No.11166571 שפת כושי המדבר הזאת

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:10:26 2018 No.11166575 german, shameless plug

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:16:00 2018 No.11166589 Old English. Especially the alliterative verse. If you disagree you're a plebeian.

Anonymous Thu May 17 05:26:52 2018 No.11166611

>OFFICIAL LANGUAGE POWER RANKINGS
1. Yiddish

>POWER GAP
200. Arabic
201. English (old)
202. Hindi
203. Chinese (Mandarin)
204. Japanese
205. French

>POWER GAP
999. Latin
1000. Modern English
1001. German

>POWER GAP
8999. Latin (its dead lmao)
9000. "Romantic" """"Languages""""

> POOOOOOOOOOOWER GAP
99001: Cyrillic Anything

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:30:31 2018 No.11166618 >>11166611 preciate ya and your satanic dubs

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:33:38 2018 No.11166627 >>11166611 >Yiddish N o p e

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:37:51 2018 No.11166631 >>11166611 Yiddish basically is autistic German, you fucking moron.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:42:01 2018 No.11166636 >>11164781 Biblical Hebrew is great but the revived everyday language is shit. The vocabulary is so scarce and limiting and I prefer writing or talking in English. Also, does this retard Shapiro even speak Hebrew?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 05:44:14 2018 No.11166639 >>11164465 >What's the most /lit/ language? synthetic languages are objectively more expressive.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 06:18:12 2018 No.11166721 File: 85 KB, 400x550, as he chambered another round.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11166611 >basing the value of a language off of it's alphabet lel

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 06:44:01 2018 No.11166811 >>11166611 based

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 06:46:35 2018 No.11166818 Portuguese.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 07:27:03 2018 No.11166899 𐐀𐑍𐑊𐐮𐑇 𐐺𐐳𐐻 𐐬𐑌𐑊𐐨 𐐮𐑌 𐑋𐐨𐑋 𐐰𐑊𐑁𐐰𐐺𐐯𐐻𐑅.

Anonymous Thu May 17 07:38:44 2018 No.11166937

>>11166818
although this is my native language and I love it, I love italian more.
There is something special in reading theology texts in italian, reading things like The catechism of the catholic church or the psalms in italian is a joy in itself, which I don't find reading those texts in portuguese, spanish or english

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 07:39:03 2018 No.11166938 >>11164655 Чeгo, лoл?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 08:03:08 2018 No.11167002 Sanskrit

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 08:08:46 2018 No.11167010 >>11166611 >Arabic >Not mentioning Persian way above Arabic kys

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 08:10:13 2018 No.11167012 >>11166533 Puedo estar equivocado pero no miento. Las únicas piezas literarias que no puedo imaginarme en otro idioma que no sea en español son los cuentos de borges y los poemas de quevedo y góngora

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 08:27:19 2018 No.11167060 French or Latin. Spanish comes close.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 08:40:56 2018 No.11167098 File: 111 KB, 1000x1181, download.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11164465 The logographic post-language which is currently developing from emoji and picrel. Letter plebs btfo.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 08:54:36 2018 No.11167136 Ironically English (irony as a quality not irony as a volition), unironically.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 17 09:04:52 2018 No.11167159 File: 304 KB, 1440x2560, Screenshot_20180517-080353.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 18th century greentext

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