/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17686548]

>Most verb tenses (often more than 60 forms per verb)
>Grammatical gender (Anglos need not apply)
>Complex "to be" copula (
>etc
Reading/writing in romance language is like painting with all the colors at your disposal.
Reading/writing in English is like a gray scale picture.

Why do anglos fool themselves into thinking they have good literature? They willingly either didn't unlock or threw away most of the language skill-tree perks just to have something easier to disseminate.

[Anonymous No.17686578]

>They willingly either didn't
sorry pajeet those night classes aren't paying off

[Anonymous No.17686591]

Hay cosas que sólo se saben en español. En el español nativo.

[Anonymous No.17686609]

>>17686578

> His language cannot handle the subtlety of differentiating between a masculine and feminine cunt.
NGMI

[Anonymous No.17686610]

>>17686548
My mother tongue is a Romance language and I find English literature equally fulfilling. You're not giving the English language the credit it deserves; I for one find it beautiful.
The best metaphor I could think of is that it feels like building with block, while Romance languages are an entanglement of cables. Both require skill to be utilized correctly, but the final result can be beautiful regardless of the path, as long as it was properly taken.

[Anonymous No.17686691]

>>17686548
French is grammatically superior. The orthograph is a nightmare that few even bother defending.
All those verbal forms and tenses would be the goat if they didn't require 3x redundancy in distinguishing them and every second verb didn't have its special snowflake conjugation.

[Anonymous No.17686721]

>>17686691
the french just have nothing better to do so they decided they need to say 'no' twice in every sentence where they aren't doing something

[Anonymous No.17686776]

>>17686721
It's a bit frustrating in terms of achieving peak performance. French has virtually the same information rate as English and analyticity of Mandarin, while being deliberately inefficient. It would stomp on other languages should they drop the pretense of maintaining five contradictory orthographic and syntactic systems at the same time.

[Anonymous No.17686858]

>>17686776
>performance
Imagine being this much of an automaton.

[Anonymous No.17686926]

>>17686858
>you don't get it, repeating the same information three times adds SOUL
Sure.

[Anonymous No.17686998]

>>17686548
The grammatical features you mentioned have nothing to do with whether the literature in a language is good or not.

Stop making low-tier bait threads.

[Anonymous No.17687006]

>>17686691
There's nothing wrong with French orthography. It's not even complicated, if that's your problem with it.

[Anonymous No.17687069]

>>17686998
>The availability of colors to paint has nothing to do with the quality of the painting.
Yeah that's why so many cultures actively avoided looking for pigments and shit right.

[Anonymous No.17687729]

>he thinks his language is intricate and artful because it has slightly more rules than fucking English
Frogs really are pathetic

[Anonymous No.17687749]

>>17686591
Como cuales?

[Anonymous No.17687759]

>>17686610
English is a mestizo language, half romance/half Germanic.

[Anonymous No.17687846]

>>17686548
“hablo en español a Dios, en italiano a las mujeres, en francés a los hombres y en alemán a mi caballo" (I speak in Spanish to God, in Italian to women, in French to men and in German to my horse.)

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain & Archduke of Austria

[Anonymous No.17687907]

>>17687846
And underlying all these languages were the same deep structures, in fact, the brain is primed for linguistic thought by discarding memory in the process. Indeed, it's possible that an essential pattern of human society is already imprinted on the human mind from birth.

[Anonymous No.17687968]

>>17686548
>language skill-tree perks
why are you such a fucking faggot?

[Anonymous No.17688010]

>>17687749

No es lo mismo estar dormido que estar durmiendo porque no es lo mismo estar jodido que estar jodiendo.

[Anonymous No.17688039]

>>17688010
He is asleep, he's sleeping.

[Anonymous No.17688047]

>>17688010
He's fucked, he's fucking, and op is pretending to be a dimwit.

[Anonymous No.17688071]

>>17686548
t. Non-linguist

[Anonymous No.17688800]

>>17687846
>in French to men
That's pretty gay though

[Anonymous No.17688926]

>>17688039
>>17688047

Me importa tres cojones.

[Anonymous No.17688944]

>>17688926
But cojonudo is a word you really can't adequately express in English.

[Anonymous No.17688955]

>>17686591

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYqWRDiE No.17688966]

>>17687759


MESTIZATION ENTAILS SYNTHETIC HOMEGENEITY; THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS A HETEROGENEOUS HODGEPODGE, AND STILL MAJORITARILY & PREPONDERANTLY ANGLOGERMANIC.

[Anonymous No.17689978]

>another ESL cope thread

[Anonymous No.17690068]

>>17689978
>Information rate density.
See, you are such a soulless robot that this is the only way you can see language. It's really sad.

[Anonymous No.17690105]

>>17690068
Beauty is a form of information.

[Anonymous No.17690107]

yet here you are... on an english website... speaking english... what's that about?

[Anonymous No.17690111]

>>17688966
Mark is gentle, courteous, erudite. Mark is employed in academia. Mark is romantic, poetic, sensitive, in brief, artistic. Mark desires female company, romance, family, posterity.

Mark es gentil, cortes, erudito. Mark esta empleado en academia. Mark e romantico, poetico, sensible, en breve, artistico. Mark desea compañia femenina, romance, familia, posteridad.

English is basically a rudimentary Latin patois. Ingles es basicamente un patois rudimentaro latino.

[Anonymous No.17690160]

>>17690111
>English is basically a rudimentary Latin patois
That more describes Spanish than English lmao. Spanish is just badly spoken pleb Latin with sunstroke

[Anonymous No.17690184]

>>17690160
No duh, which is also the same for what English was made into beginning with the Renaissance, though the rot started in the time of Chaucer. I gave you the incontrovertible proof.

[Anonymous No.17690229]

>>17690111
>Mark is gentle, courteous, erudite. Mark is employed in academia. Mark is romantic, poetic, sensitive, in brief, artistic. Mark desires female company, romance, family, posterity.

Mark is kind, fairspoken, learned. Mark works as a teacher. Mark is a lover, a wordsmith, a craftsman. Mark wishes for a mate, love, kinship, children.

[Anonymous No.17690243]

>>17686548
>SO MANY VERB ENDINGS, SO MANY CASES
>MORE RULES = BETTER, MUST COLLECT THEM ALL
>I'M INFLOOOOOCTIIING
Why are ESLs like this? Honestly worse than Anglos

[Anonymous No.17690265]

>>17690243
>I..IS THAT AN ACCUSATIVE PLURAL? I...IM DECLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Anonymous No.17690269]

>>17686548
>Why do anglos fool themselves into thinking they have good literature?
why the fuck do you think? because no anglo can learn a new language and see what it is all about.
99.9% of anglos won't know what's like to read dante, cervantes, rimbaud, pessoa in the original. They'll go their entire life without experiencing it. Let that sink in for a moment.
Even without knowing what it's like, they try to argue how english is superior, or how X translation is better than Y, as if they could read even a sentence of the work in the original work to compare, and yet, anglos are the ones most obssessed with translations

[Anonymous No.17690276]

>>17690229
Right, it's two languages in one see: it contains within itself a duplicate language like a Russian doll, that duplicate language is indistinguishable in every lexical detail (literally every word) from a rudimentary Latin romance dialect. In brief, rudimentary Norman French, for example. En bref, francaise normand rudimentaire, par exemple.

[Anonymous No.17690280]

>IS THAT A TRANSLATION? OH NO IM GOING INSAAAAANE SAVE ME NIGGERMAN

[Anonymous No.17690290]

I speak French, Spanish and Italian. Say whatever you want about anglo v romance language and sentence structure, actual literature in English is superior.

[Anonymous No.17690304]

>>17688800
Believe it or not, France used to be a formidable military power.

[Anonymous No.17690318]

>>17690276
It has twice the vocabulary of romance languages, making it able to express more subtle gradations and nuance of meaning.

[Anonymous No.17690342]

>>17690318
The first is true, but the second does not necessarily proceed from the former.

[Anonymous No.17690387]

>>17690243
>Why are ESLs like this?
It's only really Western euros, mainly romancefaggots. Eastern euros, Asians, Middle Easterners etc. think English is kinda weird, but ultimately cool, very useful and in some cases a status symbol. It seems that Western euros are unable to synthesize a personality out of anything other than the fact that they speak a langauge other than English and their hatred for the Anglo.

[Anonymous No.17690403]

>>17690387
feelsgood anglo bros

[Anonymous No.17690493]

>>17690387
Why do French Spaniards and Shitalians have such contempt for English when they aren't even good at it?
Yet Germoids and Scandis seem to just use English with ease and don't start autistic shidding and farting threads about it every day?

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYqWRDiE No.17690526]

>>17690111


1. DID I DENY THAT ENGLISH LANGUAGE HAS LATIN HERITAGE? NO, I DID NOT.

2. ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS AN ANGLOGERMANIC CHIMERA, NOT AN OFFSHOOT OF LATIN, REGARDLESS OF ANY ANGLOID LATINOPHILIC MAKEBELIEVE PRETENSES.

[Anonymous No.17690557]

>>17690269
Joyce learnt Norwegian because of Ibsen

[Anonymous No.17690572]

>>17686548
Why does nobody here understand language? I can't stand watching you absolute morons argue over which languages are "better." I can tell none of you actually learn any of the languages you talk about or any languages for that matter, because then you wouldn't romanticize any and everything that's not english.

[Anonymous No.17690575]

>>17690572
Great post, thanks for gracing us with your profound learning.

[Anonymous No.17690577]

>>17690493
Yeah there's definitely something going on there. Germanic peoples (bar the occasional declension-obsessed German) are generally quite cool with English

[Anonymous No.17690578]

>>17690575
You too

[Anonymous No.17691069]

>>17690105
Beauty is not quantified in that graph

[Anonymous No.17691072]

>>17690269
Lmao seethe you fucking euro

[Anonymous No.17691446]

Honestly English is a mutt shitshow of a language but I'm happy that it's not my mother tongue. If I spend a few years living in another country I'll be able to sound like a native speaker (friends who have lived in Spain and Paris took around 4 years to do so). However it is incredibly rare to find an ESL who can really pass as a native. Especially true for speakers of romance languages.

[Nemo !!GgBWHLRiayD No.17691751]

>>17686548
Certain romance languages are superior to English in every aspect, but I also overly like the brutalistic base of the English language; it is most suitable for philosophy.

Linguistic, and aesthetic, affinity to/with particular words, signs, and symbols, is contingent, both: on the language's universality, and: on one's own comprehension of universality; the more universal the referent, the more one is affined to, and/or predisposed to use, its respective character(s); this is why the perfect language (Latin) is aesthetically —visually, grammatically, phonetically— congruent, and excellent.

[Nemo !!GgBWHLRiayD No.17691760]

Certain romance languages are superior to English in every respect, but I also overly like the brutalistic base of the English language; it is most suitable for philosophy.

Linguistic, and aesthetic, affinity to/with particular words, signs, and symbols, is contingent, both: on the language's universality, and: on one's own comprehension of universality; the more universal the referent, the more one is affined to, and/or predisposed to use, its respective character(s); this is why the perfect language (Latin) is aesthetically —visually, grammatically, phonetically— congruent, and excellent.

[Anonymous No.17691784]

>>17690526
Precisely my point, a mestizo language, certainly when compared to all other Germanic branches. And, what's key, two languages in one: with the Latinate one being able to function independently, and completely grammatically, of the chimeric one. As my example proves.

[Anonymous No.17691847]

*blocks your path*

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYqWRDiE No.17692004]

>>17691784


QVOD VIDE:

>>17688966


CHIMERAS ARE HETEROGENEOUS MONSTERS.