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Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:07:30 2019 No.13288883 [Reply] [Original]

>book uses latin and big words to sound smart

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:16:29 2019 No.13288917 Are you seriously engaging in the floccinaucinihilipilification of polysyllables?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:17:52 2019 No.13288921 OP sounds like an asshole like Chris Langan's father.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:19:15 2019 No.13288928 File: 47 KB, 399x400, 1555724963367.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >book has an entire chapter in Latin

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:42:45 2019 No.13288990 >>13288883 >book uses French words and expressions without translation Fuck you, Nabokov!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:52:48 2019 No.13289020 >>13288990 Learning French should be a prerequisite for enjoying literature to be honest

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:58:04 2019 No.13289039 >>13289020 I consider people who don't speak English, German, French, Latin, and Greek at the bare minimum as monolinguals, to be honest. They might as well be.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 05:59:03 2019 No.13289043 >>13289039 unless you know 10 languages, you're a monolingual desu

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 06:10:19 2019 No.13289071 >>13288883 >book tells you their philosophical beliefs instead of just telling you the action that lead them to the belief sun and steel should have been "lift weights until you figure it out"

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 13 06:15:01 2019 No.13289083 >>13288883 i love the reverse better, like with descartes where he is just really smart but you know neurons aint pullies and the cerebellum has no black bile in it.