/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8051896]

>he isn't fluent in Latin and ancient Greek

[Anonymous No.8051907]

>>8051896

>he made a new thread just to pretend that he is

[Anonymous No.8051923]

>>8051896
>he wasted years learning....
>learning what?
>Latin!
>haha what a dork. I bet he thinks he's so classy reading ancient inscriptions and knowing what legal terms mean
>Chad and I practice French together.
>OMG that's so dreamy. I'm meeting up with Brad tomorrow to go over the Spanish quiz

[Anonymous No.8051930]

>>8051923
>Women

Tfw

>R9k

[Anonymous No.8051952]

>>8051923
>not being fluent in Latin, Ancient Greek and French

[Anonymous No.8051968]

>>8051907
lmao
capped

[Anonymous No.8051980]

>learning dead languages when you could be perfecting your poetry and prose in English, the proven, superior, and unequivocally dominant language of the time you're alive on Earth.

Like, you boys have to try to be that stupid.

[Anonymous No.8052025]

>>8051923
>all of this projection of insecurity

you are a sad man

[Anonymous No.8052036]

>>8051896
21st century version of this

[Anonymous No.8052037]

>>8052036
Oh my

[Anonymous No.8052049]

>>8052025
It's not projection. I studied Latin for a long time and girls have laughed at me for it.

[Anonymous No.8052052]

>>8052036
me on the right

[Anonymous No.8052063]

>>8051896
>implying the average college sorority/frat dipshit knows anything more than the few greek letters by which they can identify other frats/sororities on campus

[Anonymous No.8052067]

>>8052049
I'm curious, how did that come up in conversation?

Be honest, were you trying to gloat and it backfired?

[Anonymous No.8052073]

>>8052067
Nope, just talking about classes. Lots and lots of people think that studying dead languages is a waste of time, and I'm kind of one of them now.

[Anonymous No.8052086]

>>8052073
Talking about your classes in Latin could be conceived as being a ostentatious dick. So can using the word 'ostentatious'

[Anonymous No.8052102]

>>8052086
This is at a top liberal arts college. Every class anyone there is taking could be seen as pretentious.

[Anonymous No.8052107]

>>8052102
I only posted that in jest, m80. What college?

[Anonymous No.8052109]

oh wow a bunch of old white guys talking about how great their dicks are, what an exciting canon of literature and philosophy

fucking pass

[Anonymous No.8052113]

>>8051923
That's right. I wasted years learning Latin. I remember enrolling in the first course on a whim. In those days I was an engineering student. My parents were so proud. Even I was so confident about my future. I had an excellent well-paying job at the local computer repair shop. But then I enrolled in Latin. I watched as my career as an engineer fell apart. I lost interest in the courses. I became interested solely in the classics. I was fired from my job for reading Commentaries on the Gallic War during my shift. I was reading it in English that day. While I walked home with my severance in my pocket I read it again, in Latin. I watched as my girlfriend fucked someone named Chad from her French class. Even my childhood best friend abandoned me when she turned to the Spanish department. I didn't care. I had already ascended to the realm of the classics. I was, and am, euphoric.

[Anonymous No.8052120]

>>8052109
>implying literature had evolved
Things Fall Apart is probably sitting on your shelf, read it for the 1,000,001 time until the book Fall Apart.

[Anonymous No.8052127]

>>8052107
Tufts

>>8052113
kek

[Anonymous No.8052129]

>>8052109
Maybe you could be The Invisible Anon

[Anonymous No.8052157]

>>8052113
ahahahaha
saved

[Anonymous No.8052164]

>>8052063
>implying frat dudes can't major in classics

Fuck you

[Anonymous No.8052169]

>>8052063

>implying i didnt learn the greek alphabet by majoring in physics

[Anonymous No.8052175]

>>8052169
Nobody cares, you virginal number monkey

[Anonymous No.8052176]

>>8052169
>implying you merely know how the letters are pronounced or what a diphthong is

[Anonymous No.8052183]

>>8052175

i also majored in critical theory so i studied worthwhile modern philosophy instead of antiquated trash

[Anonymous No.8052192]

>>8052183
>worthwhile modern philosophy

[Anonymous No.8052208]

>>8052192

reminder that plato thought women were irrational because their uteruses literally floated around their bodies

tell me why i should take someone who makes such baseless and wrong claims seriously, with zero irony and full confidence, whatsoever

[Anonymous No.8052226]

>>8052208
This was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8052227]

>>8052208
STEMfaggots, everyone.

[Anonymous No.8052231]

I know ancient Greek. Is there a way I can type it?

[Anonymous No.8052238]

>>8052227

phallogocentrism is a fucking plague on rational thought

>men are logical and women are emotional
>i have a penis
>therefore anything i say is right
>also if you object then ill just rape you because my penis can cure your hysteria

[Anonymous No.8052246]

>>8052238
Now you're just fighting an enemy which you have pulled out of your ass. You have problems.

[Anonymous No.8052251]

>>8052246

nope, im pretty sure the guy who came up with logos and pathos was the one who attributed them to different genders and also decided which one supersedes the other

[Anonymous No.8052255]

>>8052231
What'sεφαρμογή

[Anonymous No.8052258]

>>8052251
That's cool dude.

[Anonymous No.8052262]

>>8052231
certainly, it's not even hard, windows has built in support for the greek alphabet (they still use the same alphabet), you just should add the greek layout, you will likely need a keyboard or keyboard stickers with the greek letters though

[Anonymous No.8052265]

>>8052251
>he's never had an argument with a woman
>he's never seen how women adopt the values of whatever man is most prominent in their lives

[Anonymous No.8052268]

>>8052258

i'm glad that you can see how indefensible plato's stance on these things is, maybe now you'll reconsider the general validity of his works (hint: they're all trash)

[Anonymous No.8052273]

>>8052268
Are you still talking?

[Anonymous No.8052274]

>>8052238
It's “phallocentrism”, not “phallogocentrism”. You're not well versed in Greek, aren't you?

[Anonymous No.8052276]

>>8052238
>also if you object then ill just rape you because my penis can cure your hysteria

What is your argument against this? Is it not reasonable?

[Anonymous No.8052297]

>>8052274

if you're so good at greek then maybe take another crack at reading that word there, pal

[Anonymous No.8052341]

>>8052208
Because people with dumb ideas can also have good ones.

[Anonymous No.8052346]

>>8052208
Hey at least we know he didn't murder women and cut out their ovaries, so that's something.

[Anonymous No.8052355]

>>8052341

realism is also trash ontology so tell me again what plato had good ideas about?

[Anonymous No.8052399]

>>8052297
It hasn't any meaning in Greek.

[Anonymous No.8052413]

>>8052355
boys' thighs

[Anonymous No.8052422]

>>8052399

hint: it's a portmanteau

[Anonymous No.8052428]

>>8052422
I see. Then it should be “phallologocentrism”. I couldn't guess it was a made-up term coined by a low-tier philosopher.

[Anonymous No.8052435]

>>8052422
it's bad and you should feel bad

[Anonymous No.8052441]

>>8052435
Derrida should feel bad

[Anonymous No.8052461]

>>8052428
>>8052435

i don't particularly care whether or not you like the word but consider maybe forming an actual refutation/argument against my points?

jk obviously you can't which is why you're being petty about words with obvious and applicable meaning

[Anonymous No.8052465]

>>8051952
>the trifecta of dead languages

[Anonymous No.8052492]

>>8052461
You are just aping Derrida and friends. If you want an argument then go look for the many responses to his nonsense you unoriginal twat.

Then KYS

[Anonymous No.8052494]

>>8052461
I'm not the person you're responding to, I just came to point out “phallogocentrism” doesn't make sense. Your discussion doesn't interest me.

>>8052465
>http://www.businessinsider.com/why-we-still-need-french-2014-2
>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72bb2fa8-c780-11e2-be27-00144feab7de.html#axzz48yMbXM5w
>http://studenttimes.org/article/careers/graduate-advice/what-most-useful-second-language-business#.Vzva7uS3ShA

[Anonymous No.8052500]

>>8052492

lmao don't insult me by comparing me to a structuralist as if they had anything useful to say about power

[Anonymous No.8052511]

>>8052500
Post your work

[Anonymous No.8052514]

desu i knew i qt nerdy / sporty girl in high school french class who said she wanted to learn latin. she read almost exclusively YA though.

[Anonymous No.8052518]

>>8052511

go read gender trouble by judith butler

[Anonymous No.8052530]

>>8052461
it's not transparent, it's obfuscatory, it doesn't follow natural portmanteau pattern and it makes you look dumb like you made a mistake and even given the full picture from when you explained it your point is still dumb

thats why it's bad
and that's why you should feel bad

[Anonymous No.8053214]

>>8052276
>taking action to cure madness
>bad

[Anonymous No.8053224]

>>8052514
harry potter was translated to latin so she still could read ya in latin

[Anonymous No.8053288]

>>8052530

if you can't figure out what phallogocentrism means in a discussion of logic and the phallus then i pity your comprehension

[Anonymous No.8053474]

>>8052127
Great cap. I studied physics (not the above physics anon though) and enjoyed learning about the world I lived in. I ended up dropping the major in my last year after becoming disgusted with how rabid the STEM circlejerk had become among my classmates, and how great the disparity had grown between what I knew about science and what I knew about history, culture, and literally everything else. The "learning about the world I lived in" line didn't really hold up to scrutiny anymore considering that I spent all my time doing statistical mechanics problem sets while knowing zero world history and never having read Shakespeare.

It's sad and ironic that the "enlightened" STEM kids tend to have the narrowest perspectice of life. There are a few who are well rounded, but most have no clue about anything outside of their field, which becomes increasingly specific and narrow as they get "smarter."

[Anonymous No.8053724]

>>8052169
bet you cant say the entire greek alphaber in 4,1 seconds like me

[Anonymous No.8053727]

>>8052265
severely underrated post

[Anonymous No.8053755]

>>8053474
Pursue both, then. Get a B.Sc. in mathematics and a B.A. in history.

[Anonymous No.8053767]

>>8051896
>he doesn't have a six pack
>he doesn't make more than 100k a year
>he isn't okay with me going out to the bar with the girls
>he isn't okay with me seeing his friends when hes not around
>he isn't 6'2"

[Anonymous No.8053780]

>>8053767
>someone i work with is no older than 35, makes more than 100,000$ a year, has a six-pack and speaks three languages

Why life's so unfair

[Anonymous No.8053783]

>>8052036
I must say, that napkin makes a surprising good hat.

[Anonymous No.8053797]

>>8052036

Girl on the right wants it but Alfonso looks pissed and has a knife.

Wat do?

[Anonymous No.8053811]

>>8053780
He didn't get that six pack in a day, he probably didn't start off making more than 100,000 a year, and he didn't wake up one morning with the ability to speak 3 languages. Get to it.

[Anonymous No.8053874]

>>8052113
Good post

[Anonymous No.8053891]

>>8051923
>Not knowing Latin and French

[Anonymous No.8054163]

>>8052113
kek

[Anonymous No.8054165]

>>8052208
Just saved from another thread.

[Anonymous No.8054269]

>>8054165
>just saved
>thinks we can't read the date

[Anonymous No.8055049]

>>8052049

I have studied Latin for a long time and have gotten laid for it. We must move in different circles.

[Anonymous No.8055068]

>>8051923
They're ugly, though.
>>8052238
>rationalists
'muh rationalism' is irrational.

[Anonymous No.8055092]

>>8052113
6/10

Was so close to greatness, started off very strong but then limply trails off at the end

[Anonymous No.8055097]

>>8055092
Same anon, just noticed the pic is saved as "whomever", that's worth a point just by itself, 7/10

[Anonymous No.8055116]

>>8051980
>Thinking he speak the best language.
>Thinking he knows about poetry and literature.
>He don't speak Spanish.

Sad life.

[Anonymous No.8055185]

>>8055116

Honestly this. Learning spanish was one of the smartest fucking things I've ever done. There's no reason not to because if you dedicate a good amount of time to it you can be decent in a few months and passable in a year.

Hispanic women also go fucking nutso for white and black men who can speak spanish worth a shit.

[Anonymous No.8055471]

>>8055185
>no reason not to learn Spanish

well, other than the fact that it's a grease fart pleb language

[Anonymous No.8055742]

>>8051896

Γιγνωσkω Ελληνιkά Κασίγνητος εμός.

Χαλεπος εστιν, αλλά εθελω πολλά μανθάνειν.

[Anonymous No.8055756]

>>8055185
Every time I speak or hear spanish I feel covered in grime. Disgusting language. Only thing I regret in life.

[Anonymous No.8055769]

>there are people who don't speak italian

[Anonymous No.8055785]

>>8055756

Μανθανοις Ελληνιkά τάχα.

[Anonymous No.8055794]

>>8055769

>ου λεγεγειν Ελληνιkά

[Anonymous No.8055798]

>>8055794

λεγέιν*

[Anonymous No.8055824]

>>8052164
>average

[Anonymous No.8055892]

>>8055794
>>8055798
I avoided using this script for the longest time because I thought 4chan wouldn't allow it

I don't know why I thought that