Questions/comments that don't deserve thier own thread

[Anonymous No.7410661]

I'll start:

*their

[Anonymous No.7410669]

In seriousness:

1) how do I get an essay published in a respectable literary magazine if I've never been published before?

2) is learning esperanto useful to becoming a better/more mindful writer?

[Anonymous No.7410671]

>>7410669
1. git gud
2. lol no

[Anonymous No.7410674]

>>7410661
What are some good readings about otokonoko phenomenon.

[Anonymous No.7410688]

>>7410671
1. I think I'm fairly good but don't have many peers whose taste I'm confident in to get useful feedback. Also, assuming a piece I've written is already good, how do I get it read/noticed/published? Know someone who knows someone? Hope it gets seen after self-publishing on a place like Medium? Something else?
2. Why not?

[Anonymous No.7411563]

bumpy

[Anonymous No.7411581]

>>7410669
>2) is learning esperanto useful to becoming a better/more mindful writer?

no, if you want to get better learn a real language with a sizable amount of good writers whom you can learn from.

[Anonymous No.7411610]

>>7410661
Where did you get this fine meme? Made me spit my tea.

[Anonymous No.7411611]

>>7410669
>1) how do I get an essay published in a respectable literary magazine if I've never been published before?
you have to be a university student with a letter of recommendation from a professor in good standing with the editor, or a professor yourself.

[Anonymous No.7411846]

>>7411610
Another /lit/ thread, actually. Can't remember exactly what context it was in

[Anonymous No.7411897]

What do you call a setting that is relatively high tech but doesn't use fuels /engines/electricity?

[Anonymous No.7411904]

>>7411897
oxymoronic

[Anonymous No.7411910]

>>7411897
Crystal Spires And Togas

[Anonymous No.7411916]

>>7411904
Not really. There are plenty of technologies that evolved independently of engines, or could feasibly be driven by manpower in a world that didn't get the idea to make a steam engine.

[Anonymous No.7411920]

>>7411910
That's not what that is at all.

[Anonymous No.7411930]

>>7411916
without electricity or advanced mechanical devices there is no justification for calling it 'high tech'. that is what 'high tech' means.

[Anonymous No.7411949]

>>7411930
Never said no advanced mechanical devices, they're simply not deiven by any sort of alternative source of energy.
I also said relatively high tech. Not in relation to us, simply more than has been previously the case in pre-engine periods. You don't need engines for a ton of really advanced processes.

[Anonymous No.7413143]

what's a good resource for learning a new language while I'm still in the insecure state before trying to use it conversationally with native speakers? websites/software recommendations, books, tapes, or something else?

[Anonymous No.7413195]

What should I read next guys? Current to-read list is: The gods themselves by Asimov, Count of Monte Cristo, Blood Meridian, Stoner, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The time of the hero by Vargas Llosa, Kafka on the shore and Dance, Dance, Dance by Murakami

[Anonymous No.7413215]

>>7413195
Count or stoner

[Anonymous No.7413219]

Why does DFW write like he only has 20 punctuation marks he can use throughout a whole book? The last two short stories I read literally had two sentences in them each. I thought he was supposed to be good at prose.

[Anonymous No.7413228]

Philosophies that argue against the destruction of art? My idiot teacher is actually arguing that book censorship and book burnings help society as a whole.
Fucking intersectional feminists man.

[Anonymous No.7413239]

Anyone know some books or short stories on absolute love? I'm talking about love that doesn't want anything in return, doesn't need to be non-sexual or of any specific orientation, just a relationship in which one or both of the parties involved wishes for the other's well being without any kind of harmful attachment.

Non-fiction is accepted but not preferred.

[Anonymous No.7413244]

>>7413219

[Anonymous No.7413257]

>>7413239
>want anything in return
sounds like you need to read up on your ontology young lady!!

[Anonymous No.7413261]

>>7410661
Which phd would give me a more in depth view of human nature - biology, psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, history, or English?

[Anonymous No.7413268]

>>7413228
>idiot teacher
Then you will learn nothing, what a waste of time. Or possibly your teacher, someone older and one would assume trained, has thought about it longer and come to that conclusion. Rather than teening against everything that upsets the world view you started creating in your head as a child, think about what she says and try to understand it, I can see her point, maybe you can't yet. Doesn't make her right and she is wrong not to explain it fully to you if she hasn't. Nonetheless, she has a point.

[Anonymous No.7413285]

>>7413268
I really can't tell if you're serious.

She wants the Washington Memorial removed because its too phallic and applauded ISIS for destroying the Temple of Bal in class.

She's already attempted (and failed) several times to start a campaign to rewrite most of the amendments in favor of barring free speech and other personal rights.

[Anonymous No.7413286]

>>7413143
I learned Spanish at a fluent level by.
1. mastering the grammar - get a textbook
2. learning verbs/vocabulary for common words
3. I took two translations of a book, one English and one Spanish and read them side by side. I read the Spanish book out loud and used the correct pronunciation for each word. I wrote down every word that I didn't know an memorized them after I had a list of ten words. By the time that I finished the book I had made a great leap in understanding the language.
4. I went to the country and socialized until I had perfected my accent and grammar (Including slang, etc).

it took about 6 months in the country to be able to get through a conversation without struggling. 1 year to not even have to think about the language to communicate. After a couple years I had completely mastered the language.

[Anonymous No.7413292]

>>7410661
IS IT tacky if I actually type "s-e-n-p-a-i" out instead of writing senpai? And likewise for the other words, desu.

[Anonymous No.7413295]

>>7413257
I'm a man? Also, please do go on?

[Anonymous No.7413297]

>>7413292
It's separated se-n-pa-i, you baka gaijin.

[Anonymous No.7413304]

>>7413286
Do you think this would work with non-latin based languages?

[Anonymous No.7413381]

Who was the best revolutionary figurehead or ideologist, and who was the most fucked up in the head: Thomas Jefferson, Lenin, Stalin, Robespierre, Che Gueverra, or Mao? I'd have to go with Robespierre for most fucked up.
>Theistic to the point of self-deification
>No sense of humor
>Completely witless

Mao for best
>China's economy is strong today
>Still has 1+ billion bodies despite muh famines
>BTFO the Nationalists and the Japs and the Muslims, i.e. all opposition, in a way his counterparts failed to do
>Channelled Chinese philosophy to back up his madness
>Nihilistic, witty, and with a wicked sense of humor!

[Anonymous No.7414073]

What is the feminine of "godliness?" Which is to say, having the attributes of a goddess.
Is there even anything applicable here?

[Anonymous No.7414084]

What am I supposed to do if my pet dies before me? How am I meant to cope? What is good literature that might answer my questions?

[Anonymous No.7414086]

>>7414084
Rituals of mourning.

[Anonymous No.7414567]

What is a term I can use for "body hair" that contains neither word? Can "hirsute" ever be used as a noun, or no?