/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22625405]

>english is a beautiful language maybe top 3 and i am tired of pretending it's not

[Anonymous No.22625408]

>>22625405
I agree.

[Anonymous No.22625412]

>>22625405
it's not. too many loan words most english speakers don't actually know the meaning of. no inflection.

[Anonymous No.22625418]

>>22625405
what a brave opinion
NOT KILL YOURSELF

[Anonymous No.22625420]

>>22625405
>retarded opinion
>doesn't even know how to use greentext properly
english is language for pigs, which reflects anglican and american christianity. Language without class, McDonald's of languages.

[Anonymous No.22625433]

>>22625412
>>22625420
Could it be the ultimate filtration language?

[Anonymous No.22625434]

>>22625405
Die deutsche Sprache bzw. Deutsch [dɔJ̯tʃ][25] ist eine westgermanische Sprache, die weltweit etwa 90 bis 105 Millionen Menschen als Muttersprache und weiteren rund 80 Millionen als Zweit- oder Fremdsprache dient. in your path

[Anonymous No.22625439]

English won the culture war.

[Anonymous No.22625447]

>>22625433
no

[Anonymous No.22625459]

>>22625405
What are the other 2?

[Anonymous No.22625461]

>>22625434
330 million uncultured barbarians that Europe outsourced their military capacitance to are actually in your path sport.

[Anonymous No.22625465]

>>22625459
hyperborean and atlantian

[Anonymous No.22625471]

>>22625412
Irrelevant. Thanks. Bye.

[Anonymous No.22625472]

>>22625461
are burgers the quintessential american food?

[Anonymous No.22625477]

>>22625471
>reeeeee

[Anonymous No.22625510]

>>22625477
Wuh?

[Anonymous No.22625517]

>>22625472
Burgers, apple pie, and all the other food we stole from the rest of the world and corrupted with criminally lax food purity restrictions and artificial ingredients. God bless murica.

[Anonymous No.22625521]

>>22625405
>>22625412
English is the perfect language to colonize
when you add new foreign words they fit like a glove
the inflection thing is what makes it most colonizable tho, you just take it and use the inflection from your native language and it makes it a million times better and more interesting (especially if you add an accent)
and no, I am actually not memeing or trolling, it actually works

[Anonymous No.22625543]

>>22625434
It sucks that german translations are utterly horrendous most of the time. The russians and french are usually translated alright, but for roman, italian, spanish or greek literature, you pretty much have to go with english translations if you aren't fluent in the original language.

[Anonymous No.22625727]

Fuck all languages that aren’t English, learning a new one is a pain in the ass too and not that fun. Only time I’ll actually do it is when China becomes too dominant and I learn mandarin and move there and become Han, I will respect the geopolitical power.

[Anonymous No.22625817]

It just needs accent marks, I've seen too many Americans not knowing how to pronounce words in their own language. Modern English could use less Ebonics too.

[Anonymous No.22625870]

>>22625817
At this rate Ebonics bout finna be da 'ficial language o'Murica amir

[Anonymous No.22626148]

>>22625433
yup, the language that even the lowest IQ mongrel can speak is the "ultimate filtration language"

[Anonymous No.22626164]

>>22625817
>not knowing how to pronounce words
This is common law bitch. Fuck off with your civil code, 'oh please senor authority tell me how to live' bullshit.
Why are Europeans incapable of understanding freedom?

[Anonymous No.22626426]

>>22626148
Then why am I always hearing about how hard it is to learn English?

[Anonymous No.22626437]

>>22626426
It’s an easy language to convey bare bones basics. Hard language to master

[Anonymous No.22626440]

>>22626426
Because, as pointed out before itt, the writing system is in practice the same as Chinese logograms where the symbol has no correlation with sounds, so you have to match a sound to a string of letters whereas in other languages that match is automatic.

[Anonymous No.22626543]

>>22625405
The most popular example of a beautiful sounding english phrase is beautiful because it doesn't sound like english.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonaesthetics#Cellar_door

[Anonymous No.22626585]

>>22625439
If being culturally enriched by swarthy chavs who will outbreed whites in a few decades is winning, then I would much rather lose.

[Anonymous No.22626604]

>>22625405
cellar door

[Anonymous No.22626615]

>>22626426
Never heard or seen it. Just because ayrabs and mexicunts are too lazy to properly learn it doesn't mean english is hard.

[Anonymous No.22626634]

>>22626543
>the phrase “cellar door” sounds beautiful
It doesn’t though, why are anglx trannies so deluded? Any word with the English R (urrrr urrrr) automatically sounds ugly. Also, no vowel harmony whatsoever in that phrase and one word has two syllables while the other has one.
Fucking retards. Angloids will NEVER be aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.22626637]

>>22625405
ESL’s shaking and seething in this thread.

[Anonymous No.22626659]

>>22625434
>i can read this and i don't even know german
i wasted so much time learning chinese

[Anonymous No.22626663]

>>22626634
Pic related playing 'My Old Man's A Dustman' with his sweaty armpit is more aesthetic than the entirety of non English poetry. Simple as

[Anonymous No.22626682]

>>22626634
>this is the guy calling english ugly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYf6odHLBBU&

[Anonymous No.22627837]

>>22625439
>White people's language
More like genocide.

[Anonymous No.22627841]

>>22625439
French did too for a while. nothing says english will keep the title

[Anonymous No.22627857]

>>22627841
It won the lottery by being on top when globalization occured. That's a once in human history event and it's unlikely any culture will see the dominance enjoyed by the anglosphere ever again. Cope.

[Anonymous No.22627865]

>>22627857
>Cope
I dont want english to lose its spot Im just scared

[Anonymous No.22628426]

>>22625412
What do you mean by 'don't actually know the meaning of'? Don't know what they meant in the languages they were loaned from? It's common for loanwords to change meaning when going from one language to another.

[Anonymous No.22628430]

>>22625817
The problem with English is that our spelling isn't consistent- we have a bunch of spellings that don't reflect how the word is pronounced. The existing system would need only minor modifications to actually be able to represent English phonology properly, primarily proper spellings for the FOOT vowel and the voiced dental fricative.

[Anonymous No.22628435]

>>22625405
It's top 3 of you know only one, fucking Mutt.

[Anonymous No.22628437]

>>22626440
Not true. English is unusually bad as alphabetic orthographies go, but it's still clearly alphabetic in nature.
https://zompist.com/spell.html

[Anonymous No.22628441]

>>22626634
>Any word with the English R (urrrr urrrr) automatically sounds ugly.
The example is from Tolkien, who had a non-rhotic accent.

[Anonymous No.22628541]

Even foreigners agree that English is the best most advance language in the world. The only one that might come close is German, they seem to have a word for every possible thing. It's very autistic.

[Anonymous No.22628561]

>>22627857
What comes after English isn't the dominant language anymore? What's the next dominant language?

[Anonymous No.22628568]

>>22628541
The concept of one natural language being better or more advanced than another is nonsense.
t. has a linguistics degree

[Anonymous No.22628583]

>>22627865
200-300 years from now only a handful of languages will exist on any meaningful level, in a multipolar world axis, with English being the most dominant and Chinese second. Screencap this.

[Anonymous No.22628610]

>>22626440
>le spelling and writing system
Irrelevant, most people learning a new language don’t struggle with orthography (unless it’s Chinese or something), they struggle with grammar.
And English grammar is piss easy.

[Anonymous No.22628614]

>>22626634
>anglos
>pronouncing word-final r
“Sela dō” sounds good

[Anonymous No.22628615]

>>22628568
I don't care about your "degree."

>>22628583
>Screencap this.
Kek 300 years in the making

[Anonymous No.22628617]

>>22626634
>no vowel harmony
Are you Finnish or Turkish or something? No one cares about this in the major language families

[Anonymous No.22628674]

>>22628615
It's consensus among the experts who have spent their lives studying the subject. What makes you think you know better than them?

[Anonymous No.22628688]

>>22628674
>Consensus
>Experts
>Studying
>Opinions
I do not care about this wasted investment.

[Anonymous No.22628695]

>>22628674
Is this b8?

[Anonymous No.22628797]

>>22625405
who the fuck are you quoting, you stupid fucking frog????

[Anonymous No.22630100]

things like th(coiced and unvoiced), ph, and so on, are fairly regular and need no changing. changing vowel orthographies like oo in foot is not a simple upgrade because you lose the history of the language built into the spelling. stress placement is the major thing that trips people up, and because we have lax vowels, people often dont evem now what you are saying if they are expecting the stress elsewhere. compare economic and economy.. if you start spelling words like this phonetically they will look totally sifferent, when they shouldnt. some words can be stressed in multiple ways also, so if we use an accent system where does it go. finally, the spelling system does in fact have a finite number of irregularities, and i as a fully grown english speaker will never, ever, make a pronunciation error, whether its a word ive seen before or not.

[Anonymous No.22630116]

>>22628688
What makes you think you know better than them?

[Anonymous No.22630117]

>people talking about language without having studied linguistics are retarded and i am tired of pretending they're not

[Anonymous No.22630129]

>>22630100
>changing vowel orthographies like oo in foot is not a simple upgrade because you lose the history of the language built into the spelling
What about only changing the spellings that don't accurately indicate the pronunciation of those words? So <oo> for /u/ is fine even if it doesn't exist in any other language, because it's consistent, but spellings like "one" and "women" are bad because how you'd expect them to be pronounced by English spelling norms isn't how they're pronounced.
>compare economic and economy.. if you start spelling words like this phonetically they will look totally sifferent, when they shouldnt.\
Even if you were reforming English spelling from the ground up, I think it makes sense to write the underlying form of reduced vowels. The Communists reformed Russian spelling and they still kept that aspect.
>and i as a fully grown english speaker will never, ever, make a pronunciation error, whether its a word ive seen before or not.
I doubt that, spelling pronunciations aren't rare.

[Anonymous No.22630146]

>>22630117
>linguistics
Made up autism. Useless.

[Anonymous No.22630187]

>>22630146
For a response, I refer to my post again.

[Anonymous No.22630205]

>>22630146
How do you know this?

[Anonymous No.22630888]

>>22626637
i'm shaking from the orgasm your mom gave me

[Anonymous No.22630892]

>>22628541
>Even foreigners agree that English is the best most advance language in the world

only browncels who larp as "faustian" believe this