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14349038 No.14349038 [Reply] [Original]

Do you think it's casual that 3 of the greatest American writers became European citizens?

>> No.14349054

casual?

>> No.14349064

>>14349038
If Americans claim Nabokov as one of their own, then the Brits obviously own Eliot and not the Americans.

>> No.14349075

>>14349054
>casual
subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance

>> No.14349141

>>14349075
Native speakers don't use this word the way you did here. Instead of "casual," "a coincidence" would have worked better.

>> No.14349259

Melville didn't

>> No.14349293

>>14349141
Well, native speakers should learn from non-native speakers, considered their complete inability to grasp the etymology and the original meaning of the words they use.

>> No.14349301

>>14349293
Yeah nah.

>> No.14349305

>>14349301
Okay fool.

>> No.14349308

>>14349301
t. N*gger

>> No.14349342

>>14349038
>>14349075
Do you mean 'causal?'

>> No.14349356

>>14349342
No, he clearly meant 'casual', and the fact that you can not trace a connection between 'case' and 'casual' only shows the retardation of the entire english race. Fuck off.

>> No.14349362

>>14349356
Where is a link that showcases this definition for the word casual? >>14349075
I've never once seen it used in that context and causal is the obvious word to be swapped.

>> No.14349370

>>14349038
In the grand scheme 3 is not much

>> No.14349373

>>14349356
Lol whew lad

>> No.14349381

>>14349362
>>14349356
Nevermind, I found it. OP misused the word based on an incorrect interpretation, stranger so given the site presents an example of the correct use. Should probably delete the thread and start over.

>> No.14349586

Eliot became a British subject, not a European citizen

>> No.14349619
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14349619

>>14349586
Preach m8

>> No.14350924

>>14349381
OP was so intent on BTFOing the amerifags that he didn't even check to make sure his fancy shmancy word was used correctly.

>> No.14350948

Who? James? whos the third one

>> No.14350949 [DELETED] 

>>14349038

What? Melville, Faulkner, and Dickinson never renounced their identities.

>> No.14350954

>>14350948
Hemingway

>> No.14350955

>>14349038

What? Melville, Faulkner, and Dickinson never renounced their nationalities.

>> No.14350989

>>14349038
>Do you think it's casual that 3 of the greatest American writers became European citizens?
Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain became European citizens?

I think it's more likely Eliot is overrated because he shouldered his way in at a time when British literature was petering out and ceased to have a voice of its own. The bongs needed someone so they promoted this minor writer and pretended he was somehow comparable to Yeats, Joyce, Proust, and the other greats of the 20 century.

On the other hand, the much more talented Henry James is slept on, probably because he was fixated on America v. Europe even after the move to England.