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The most literary languages Anonymous Wed Apr 19 21:21:32 2023 No.21932667 [Reply] [Original]

The most /lit/ languages are Greek, Latin, German, English, and French. These five languages have produced the greatest works of literature of all time and no other language even comes close. Literature in other languages might as well not even exist. Why is this? Why have they produced such a disproportionate amount of literary masterpieces?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 19 21:26:34 2023 No.21932684 >>21932667 Wow the languages of the people who valued higher thought and the human experience wrote about these things in their language. I am le shocked

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 19 21:28:24 2023 No.21932691 >>21932684 Did other countries (e.g. Spain, Italy, etc.) not value higher thought and the human experience?

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 19 21:35:23 2023 No.21932714 >>21932667 There's Rumi, there's Dante's Inferno, there's Art of War, there's Crime and Punishment, there's The Tale of Genji These are literary masterpieces and they aren't from the pool of the five language you listed

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 19 21:37:44 2023 No.21932725 >>21932714 >Art of War Lol

Anonymous Wed Apr 19 21:59:30 2023 No.21932801 [DELETED]

>>21932714
>Dante's Inferno
Italy managed to produce only one (1) masterpiece over the course of hundreds of years, while the languages I listed in the OP produced innumerable literary geniuses. Shakespeare alone wrote more great literature than Italy's one (1) good work.

Anonymous Wed Apr 19 22:03:57 2023 No.21932817

>>21932714
>Dante's Inferno
Italy managed to produce only one (1) masterpiece over the course of hundreds of years, while the languages I listed in the OP produced innumerable literary geniuses. Shakespeare alone wrote more great literature than all of Italy.

Anonymous Wed Apr 19 22:04:07 2023 No.21932818

>>21932801
There are a lot of celebrated Italian poets thoughbeit, it's hardly just Dante. Petrarch, Leopardi, and d'Annunzio are all well known in Anglorealm and they have like a dozen other big names that are less known abroad but considered on a similar tier from what I understand.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 19 22:06:43 2023 No.21932830 >>21932818 I'll grant you Leopardi. The rest suck ass.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 19 22:58:46 2023 No.21932985 File: 132 KB, 446x387, 72cda2418bcdd077d60b7.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21932667 >prestige languages

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 20 08:27:49 2023 No.21934384 File: 57 KB, 640x468, tzu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21932714 >>21932725 Art of War is peak businesscore. For vainglorious office drones climbing the corporate ladder by larping as a chink military general to defeat their coworkers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 20 09:13:30 2023 No.21934454 >>21932667 english?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 20 09:20:50 2023 No.21934464 File: 140 KB, 500x650, 1672533555827904.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21932667 American English > English

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