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Non native english speaker here.

Am fascinated by the fine use of english language.
I thought /lit/ would be the best in this regard, can you please talk about anything no matter how long or short, say anything you want but say it in the most articulate and sophisticated way english language can handle.

>> No.3564297

Hey faggot= I greet you with the utmost lightheartedness in respect to your idiosyncratic romantic and coital orientation.

>> No.3564302

Go read Nietzsche, he's the greatest of them all.

>> No.3564305

>>3564302
i get the sarcasm, cause he's complete shit.

>> No.3564307

I'm not particularly eloquent so I'll make this short.

English is bland and non descriptive. I advise you to learn something else.

>> No.3564308

>>3564305
how is that, monsieur?

>> No.3564309

>>3564307
What's a better language?

>> No.3564311

>>3564309
Anything of Latin descent.

>> No.3564315

>>3564308
How he isn't shit?
Or as OP requested to talk:
In what manner his whole existential presence in the abstract thoughts and patterns of our brains, is not by product of organic consumption?

>> No.3564316

>>3564311
like English.

Joking aside i find Greek much more complicated and filling

>> No.3564317

>>3564316
English is Germanic.

>> No.3564319

>>3564317
Germanic is latin

>> No.3564320

>>3564291
Is that Zyzz and Chestbrah?

>> No.3564322

>>3564320
yeah, their faggot level are on impossible scale.

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>>3564319
>Germanic is latin
Latin comes from Italic, not Germanic.

>> No.3564325

>>3564323
Yes, but you're still wrong.
English is not Germanic, it's both.

>> No.3564324

>>3564320
>>3564322
>knowing that
>on MY /lit/

>> No.3564327

>>3564322

lol

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3564332

>>3564324
>Not knowing that.
How can you be on 4chan and not know who they are?

>> No.3564341

>>3564302
>use of english language
>Nietzsche

>> No.3564345

>>3564305
I know right? He's the shit!

>> No.3564354

>>3564345
>liking a 4/10 philosopher

>> No.3564355

>>3564325

old english developed from a base germanic supstrate, middle english changed dramatically through the interaction with italic languages (latin and french) in the early middle ages. the base lexis is decidedly saxon, with some norse elements procured through borrowing

for most of its history it was seen as a less prestigious language even by its speakers and made heavy use of loan words

>> No.3564363

>>3564354
I know right? He is shit!

>> No.3564390

>>3564363
Yeah, he should have just stuck with translating the work of Zarathustra. Now THAT was good.

>> No.3564402

>>3564390
I know right? He's the shit!