/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14793616]

Is Sanskrit or German more /lit/ to learn?

[Anonymous No.14793627]

>>14793616
Sanskrit, not even close. Only Greek surpasses it.

[Anonymous No.14793645]

>>14793627
But with german you can read kant & hegel. Plus musil and thomas mann

[Anonymous No.14793684]

Neither.
His country's language is best.

[Anonymous No.14793801]

>>14793684
English is based but not on the level of sanskrit

[Anonymous No.14793834]

>>14793627
This but Sanskrit surpases even Greek

>The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either
- Sir William Jones 1786

[Anonymous No.14793841]

>>14793616
Sanskrit, not even close. Only German surpasses it.

[Anonymous No.14793865]

Other than Hinduism stuff, is there even anything of interest written in Sanskrit? It seems like Greek has so much more diversity.

[Anonymous No.14793879]

>>14793865
a few poems like megahduta. plus i imagine it would be eas(ier) to learn languages like bengali or marathi if you were already fluent in sanskrit - probably not true for hindi though.

[Anonymous No.14793921]

>>14793865
Sanskrit is but a foot on the path on the way to learning Pali and reading Buddhas (pbuh) true world (pali canon)

[Anonymous No.14793984]

>>14793616
German, not even close. Only Sanskrit surpasses it.

[Anonymous No.14794707]

>>14793616
>imagine never being able to read Faust in its original text
learn german and stop being a pleb

[Anonymous No.14794738]

random question: Should I be reading spanish translations of french and italian classics?

[Anonymous No.14794784]

I would strongly recommend against learning Sanskrit unless you really, really know what you're getting into. By the time you know what you're getting into you could already have learned German.

[Anonymous No.14794803]

>>14794707
I would not recommend that in any language.

[Anonymous No.14795334]

>>14794707
>Faust

I am german and we have to read that at school. I really disliked it, not for its style but the content. The main character is incredibly unsympathetic to me. You feel goethes arrogance through every line. It is a book that is so obviously written by a rich fuckboy that I just cant stand it. An artist, to be likeable, has to be somewhat special. Atleast be an alcoholic or gay, otherwise your content will be devoid of deeper introspection and full of apparant narcissism

[Anonymous No.14795343]

>>14793865
There's a shitload of stuff written in Sanskrit like the Vedas, the epics, and all the puranas just to name a few.

[Anonymous No.14796191]

>>14793834
How one language can surpass another, i don;t get it, is there any studies on this subject, like comparison these both languages or something

[Anonymous No.14796224]

>>14796191
To give you a starter - French is a shit language.

[Anonymous No.14796226]

>>14796191
persiophiles and indophiles were the weebs of the 19th century

[Anonymous No.14796231]

Indian mysticism is all smoke and mirrors. French and German are the correct answers

[Anonymous No.14796454]

>>14796224
why does everyone in movies love french

[Anonymous No.14796458]

chinese

[Anonymous No.14796600]

>>14793616
German
Sanskrit is only relevant to stoner retards

[Anonymous No.14797917]

>>14795334
thats the whole point though. Faust is desperate as he doesn't know what to do anymore to gain more knowledge. Mephisto uses this and corrupts him. Throughout the story Faust becomes more and more evil.
Needing the main character to be "likeable" is something YA readers need because in those "books" its the point to identify as the MC.
imo even if you dont like the characters, Faust is definetely worth reading alone for the poetic value and the cultural value it had as it is still relevant and copied in many other works and society

[Anonymous No.14797976]

>>14793616
German is also pretty /sci/

[Anonymous No.14798007]

Goethe is literally God. The One looking down on the myriad plebs, on nature itself.

[Anonymous No.14798090]

>>14794738
if you can read spanish, you can read italian

[Anonymous No.14798148]

>>14793921
This is a good reason to learn it.

[Anonymous No.14798180]

>>14793834
>Sir William Jones
literally who? william jones sounds like a black name so i can't take it seriously hahahaha

[Anonymous No.14798181]

>>14793921
Holy based

[Anonymous No.14798518]

>>14793645
Germans often read Kant and Hegel in English because the translations improve them

[Anonymous No.14798520]

>>14795334
>Frau Lehrerin, Kevin wurde schon wieder gefiltert!

[Anonymous No.14799034]

>>14793616
>not speaking german
Das Gesicht wenn du alle deutsche Philosophen in deutsch lesen kannst.

[Anonymous No.14799057]

>>14799034
>>14798518

[Anonymous No.14799530]

>>14796191
I don't know of any studies, but Heidegger more or less said Latin was a shit language compared to Greek multiple times.