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Has any writter utterly mogged an entire other nation/culture by writting in the other niggas language that he's not native and mog 99% of the other niggas entire literary tradition?

Not talking about english, already know some cases like nabokov who wrote in english.

>> No.20148618

>>20148608
Beckett in French

>> No.20148623

>>20148608
>Nigga
I would not feel much empathy while watching you die. Definitely less than I would feel for a mouse or other small rodent, maybe more than for an insect. It depends how expressive the insect is I suppose

>> No.20148627

>>20148623
Is a legit american word, chud.

t. ESL

>> No.20148629

>>20148608
i know you said not english but its cool how it was Conrad's third language and he learned it at 20

>> No.20148638

>>20148618
good call, anon

>> No.20148934

>>20148608
Nabokov was a native English speaker so he doesn't count anyway

>> No.20148951

>>20148608
Not my opinion, but certain voices claim that Cioran is the most proficient master of the french language since Paul Valery.

>> No.20148957

>>20148627
You must be new here. Americans are not human, and any of their words, therefore, are null and void. Burgers get the fuck out.

>> No.20149003

>>20148608
Conrad was Polish and owned English pretty well. Although I was never quite impressed by his prose.

>> No.20149023

>>20148623
What do you expect when we can't even define what "woman" is? Truth is dead. Words should not be scary.

>> No.20149125

>>20148608
Sibawayh, a native speaker of Persian, was the most prolific grammarian of Arabic and wrote the first and most famous grammar of the language.

>> No.20149394

>>20148608
Mozart did it to Turks, musically.

>> No.20149439

>>20149023
Women have different brain structures than men, different bodies and different physiology. This is not up for debate, this is biology

>> No.20149447
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>nigga

>> No.20149450

>>20148608
Nabokov.

>> No.20149457

>>20148608
Joyce, an Irishman, mogged the shit out of British in their own language, leaving their darling of the Elite (Woolf) in absolutely tears of seething and madness to the rest of her career.

>> No.20149662

>>20149439
Nothing has been proven to be any more different than any other difference between person to person. We're still at the speculation stage on this

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>>20148608
Maybe not language, but culture.
Has any African topped Gaimen in a depiction of their own mythology?

>> No.20149738

Joseph Conrad

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>> No.20149905

Jerzy Kosinski, though there have been accusations that he’s had paid but uincredited co-writers, including a young Paul Auster

>> No.20149930

Canetti
Cioran

>> No.20149951

>>20149662
Uh huh and Africans are more diverse among each other than compared to non-Africans.

>> No.20150361

>>20149951
They were slowpokes when it came to traveling long distances, so they intermingled less.

>> No.20150542

>>20148608
distinctly esl usage pattern of "nigga"

>> No.20150572

>>20148608
Jack Kerouac

>> No.20151502

:desu:

>> No.20152430

>>20148608
Pushkin a.k.a. Dumas <img class="xae" data-xae width="31" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/3021a426_WeirdChamp.png">

>> No.20152718

>>20148608
Ayn Rand.

>> No.20152726

>>20148623
Seething at a word

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>>20148608
Phillis Wheatley mogged everyone white man in THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD, cope and seethe

>> No.20152790

>>20152734
more like Phillis WHOtley, amirite!

>> No.20152798

>>20148623
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