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>Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
What the hell did he mean by this? I'm about to get so angry.

>> No.11665467

Joyce, like all Irishmen, was incapable of understanding the Anglo soul. It is suspected of such 'simple' people.

>> No.11665477

>>11665456
People who speak English suck and have empty heads and other languages have a more refined culture

>> No.11665517

>>11665477
This

>> No.11665520

>>11665477
yes. YES. yeas. i speak flemish and portugease.

>> No.11665541

>>11665456
The "English audience" consists of retards who can't even pronounce nor spell some of their words.

>> No.11665552

Writing in English is like coding in assembly.

>> No.11665557

>>11665477
>>11665541
Alright, I'm getting mad!

>> No.11665582
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11665582

Basically, English is quite a chaotic language. Instead of specific words or symbolic terms being used to convey esoteric and specific or idiosyncratic experiences using gendered pronouns and gendered and context sensitive linguistic rules to govern the capability for articulation within the language, English instead allows the speaker to shirk off the burden of remembering such context specific words and phrases in favor of the general assumption that all frames of reference will be defacto male or non-gendered.

This causes great anguish and asshurt in the souls and minds of lesser thinkers who rely heavily on the rigidity and culturally dictated context sensitive terms of phrase and words to convey their thoughts.

English says, no, you must create your own articulated description.

>> No.11665596

>>11665582
Wow Joyce was just a pussy I guess. Irish fuck btfo'd.

>> No.11666397

>>11665456
>"THEY are the problem, not ME"

>> No.11666401

>>11665582
Holy run-sentence Batman

>> No.11666405

>>11665467
>*nglo
>soul

>> No.11666421

>>11665467
CS Lewis said the reverse

>Lewis experienced a certain cultural shock on first arriving in England: "No Englishman will be able to understand my first impressions of England," Lewis wrote in Surprised by Joy. "The strange English accents with which I was surrounded seemed like the voices of demons. But what was worst was the English landscape ... I have made up the quarrel since; but at that moment I conceived a hatred for England which took many years to heal."

>Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism toward the English. Describing an encounter with a fellow Irishman, he wrote: "Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race. After all, there is no doubt, ami, that the Irish are the only people: with all their faults, I would not gladly live or die among another folk." Throughout his life, he sought out the company of other Irish people living in England and visited Northern Ireland regularly. In 1958 he spent his honeymoon there at the Old Inn, Crawfordsburn, which he called "my Irish life".

>> No.11666452

>>11665456
means he wished he wrote in Italian

much like Nabokov wished he wrote in French

>> No.11666465

>>11666452
He basically invented his own language in FW to circumvent this so not really a good refutation you silly anglo

>> No.11666546

>>11666421
>dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race
That pretty much sums it up. Even their food ffs.

>> No.11666601

>>11666452
>Nabokov wished he wrote in French
Bullshit

>> No.11667266

>>11665557
chanel your anger and become the joku of literature board