>>12170602
>That’s the kind of rhetoric to be expected from a dilettante unwilling to make any effort.
This is the kind of rhetoric to be expected from a dilettante who doesn't know what true effort is and thinks it means reaching a conversational level. True effort is time consuming and needs to be economized
Goethe and Mann are bad writers and philistines. Kant and Heidegger can be read in other languages.
>Let's see your Italian, French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, German, Portuguese, or Russian, Mr Nabokov. Surprise us.
Nabokov never spoke Italian, Latin, Greek, Spanish, or more than a small smattering of German.
Why you've added portugese I can't imagine.
>>12170608
>Kek. No comment.
Calm down.
>>12170613
>>12170621
typo cope