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>learning french just so I can read Baudelaire's translation of Poe

>> No.13639922

>Learning chinese just so I can read untranslated modern novels

>> No.13640318

>>13639870
>Learning Italian just so I can read Umberto Eco

>> No.13640362

>learning english just so I can read /lit/

>> No.13640371

>learning German just so I can read Schlegel's Shakespeare

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>Learning Latin to read the Vulgate

>> No.13640435

>learning akkadian just so I can read the epic of gilgamesh

>> No.13640437

>>13640318
learning italian so I can read Ezra Pound's italian translation of the cantos

>> No.13640447

>learning Irish so I can read Finnegans Wake

>> No.13640622

>Learning Maori so I can get an automatic 100k pay raise

>> No.13640636

>>13640430
based and hieronymuspilled

>> No.13640873

>learning

>> No.13640886

>learning coptic to flex on a uzbekistanian yarn-spinning message board

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>learning English to read /lit/

>> No.13641012

>Learning English so I can read

>> No.13641015

>learning german just so I can read mein kampf

>> No.13641442

>learning sign language so I can speak to deaf people and learn their secrets

>> No.13641479

>learning Braille so I can use an ATM with my eyes closed

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>Why yes, I am learning Spanish to listen to Spanish metal. How could you tell?

>> No.13641510 [DELETED] 

I'm learning thai for uhhhhhh

>> No.13641514

>learning thai for uhhhhhh

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>learning how to be gay so I can get fucked in the ass by other guys

>> No.13641655

>learning sign language so I can insult deaf people as well

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>learning russian just to read tolstoy

>> No.13642185

>>13642168
>learning russian to read Tolstoy
>not Dostoevsky
дoлбoёб

>> No.13642221

>>13640889
unironically me. I studied english grammar only to not be mocked at here.

>> No.13642262

>>13640622 should i do this?

>> No.13642277

>>13642185
>appreciate Dostoevsky more than Tolstoy
Бoжe, быдлo дaжe нe пpячeтcя

>> No.13642278

>learning mongolian so i can communicate with my brother with down's syndrome