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20649349 No.20649349 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw it is impossible to learn every written language in the world at a high enough level that I can read their literature untranslated

>> No.20649357

>>20649349
Start with greek

>> No.20650082
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20650082

>>20649349
Japanese, German, Spanish, Italian, and French. Now you're an ubermensch who can impress Europeans and read the moon runes in Japanese visual novels

>> No.20650085

>>20650082
>Not learning Chinese over Japanese, which has a wealth of books that will likely never be translated, and even if they are translated will lose a majority of the meaning

>> No.20650086

>>20649349
>every written language

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>>20650082
>Japanese

>> No.20650119

>>20649357
or any other classical IE language
Latin, Sanskrit, Old Norse…

>> No.20650143

>>20650119
>Old Norse
The cool thing about Old Norse is that it's not even hard to learn as an English speaker. And after you learn that, learning Old English is a walk in the park and will immediately make sense

>> No.20650231

I'm learning Latin, Italian, French and German
I think I'll be satisfied with those choices

>> No.20650244

>>20650143
'not even hard' relative to what?

>> No.20650256

>>20650244
I don't know. Stuff like Latin/Greek, I suppose. Old Norse is relatively easy because a lot of the words still bear some resemblance to their modern day English evolutions