/lit/ - Literature

faggotry

>Greek is the language of philosophy
>Latin is the language of literature and diplomacy

>>16522669
This.
>>16522661
trade, thought it was pretty obvious. nation of shopkeepers and all.

>>16522661
mcdonald's menus

>>16522661
>English is the language of global corporate hegemony

>>16522661
>French is the language of diplomacy
>t. Person who lives hundreds of years in the past
English is the language of both diplomacy and finance, the latter of which shows the deep problems with Anglo culture.
And the language of philosophy is Greek, not German. Latin is the language of science.

>>16522661
poetry.

>>16522679
>the language of philosophy is Greek
Name one Greek philosopher in the past 2 millennia

>>16522687
Me.

>>16522683
BASED, got my Robert Browning downloaded. Peak comfy.

>>16522683
English is unsuitable for poetry. Imagine if Shakespeare was French.

English is the language of Science, Literature, Philosophy and Diplomacy.

You continentals amuse me with your attempts to compete with your Anglo Superiors.

Now stop talking my language.

>>16522679
>what is the Versailles treaty

>>16522677
Sort of off topic, but has anyone written a book taking English to task for the absolute abomination of international business English that it's given birth to?

english is the language of the world

>>16522661
>What is English the language of?
the world

>>16522722
A treaty passed over a century ago under extremely different political conditions to current day.

>>16522661
>What is English the language of?
Science. Anything that has a lot of international collaboration these days, business, art etc.

>>16522733
nigga fuck you i replied that first

>>16522679
>Latin is the language of science.
Not been the case for generations my man. You can still get the odd paper from the last hundred or so years in German but most of everything that matters these days is in English and if it's not it's translated into English.

>>16522693
This. Its Frankenstein parentage gives it supreme lyrical versatility.

English is the language of science. Goes to show why most Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, and medicine are native English speakers.

>>16522744
>in German
And a few things in Russian from based USSR*
Forgot about that.

>>16522661
Russian is extremely overrated. Only a few authors from the golden age are worth reading. There isn't a single russian novel worth reading post 20th century.

>>16522683
This. Its patchwork lineage gives it supreme lyrical versatility.

>>16522753
They are actually mostly native Hebrew speakers, English is their second language

>>16522687
Half the church fathers

>>16522661
G*rman is a language reserved to speaking to hounds, and even then only when they're unruly.

>>16522775
Pagan psychobabble is not philosophy

>>16522661
Science.

>>16522661
As the lingua franca, everything

English is unironically the language of all of these, except maybe philosophy

commerce obviously

>>16522661
Irish novelists, playwrights, and poets

>>16522661
English is the language of business and the language of science, also an increasing number of people I know prefer to read in English than in other languages including their native tongue

>>16522715
>Now stop talking my language
Dann könntest du mich nicht verstehen,

>>16523989
>language of science
Still Latin

>>16524155
Literally nobody writes science in Latin anymore, it's only used for some terminology.

English is the language of journalism.

>>16522661
capital :^)

>>16522661
>Russian is the language of drunken depression
>German is the language of raging autism
>French is the language of tryhard
>English is the language you use

>>16522661
Well for starters, your post

>>16522669
Based

>>16522764
woah, the more you know

>>16522661
Fucking retard. English and French are the languages of literature. Most other languages are fairly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

YA fiction

>>16522661
Put 2 bigger frogs with latin and greek

Harry Potter lol

>>16522661
science. simple and structured/formal language is mostly used by english authors.

even empirism is english-made

sans lingua franca

>Danish is the language of fairy tales

>>16522661
>What is English the language of?
Degeneracy.

>>16522760
>There isn't a single russian novel worth reading post 20th century.
Nigga, English and Russian are the only two languages where literature is still being made after 1914.

>>16525266
sans

>>16522715
It's not your language. It is a global language, not bounded to one primitive tribelet

Here's the truth:
English is the only important culture after Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Germans and French have been seething for centuries at the superior Anglo culture instead of putting out actually good stuff. Russians don't care cause they don't have an inferiority complex and their literature is better than all continental Europe literature.

>>16522687
Sextus Empiricus
Epictetus
Plotinus
Plutarch

>>16522704
Based an redpilled.

>>16525407
Truthpilled post

Just imagine how horrifying it would be to only be able to read english literature. *shudders*

>>16522736
Only since we included the third world and have to use an easier language than german or at least french in science. Before that the former where where it's at. English is the lnguage of decadent endtimes and the brown massman.

>>16525457
German works translated in English are better than the originals

>>16525471
I am going to let your statement kneel in it's own vomit.

>>16525491
Do you posts this cringe reply in every thread?

>>16525512
I am so very sorry for everyone you know.

>>16525471
>Shakespeare is better in african click sounds

England is the most /lit/

>>16525482
>>16525480

>>16522661
There isn't much specifically connecting language to those domains.
If anything, I'd say English is the natural language of trade and French a natural language of mathematics.

>>16522661
Peasants, pseuds, midwits, faggots, kikes, trannies, hylics, reddit, bugmen, atheists
T. Proud speaker of Polish

>>16522661
English is the language of markets, science, engineering, medicine, and industry.

Latin is the language of empire.

>>16522683
agreed.

>>16525407
England was an irrelevant backwater for most of history. Only in the 18th century did they start becoming important.

>>16522661
Portuguese is the language of poetry.

Spanish is the language of horseshit.

>>16522661
business, nigga

finance

/thread

>>16522715
>Now stop talking my language
Ja voldria jo que m'entenguessis en un llenguatge com Déu mana, però sempre é millor deixar als anglos amb la seua il•lussió de superioritat

>>16526231
Chinese.

>>16526335
not yet. come back in a decade

>>16524146
Good.

>>16522704
English has an excellent vocabularic range for poetry; from the rustic Saxonic verses to the sublime Latinate diction of Milton (and everything in between). French is brilliant for continuous ryhming, however. The 17th C insistence on dramatic unities would be highly questionable in the case of Shakespeare, at any rate.

>>16522669
Even Romans preferred Greek for their lit and plays, faggot

>being a prosefag
real men understand what the author wanted to convey even from a picture book translated from braile

Russian aka. an old Bulgarian dialect is the language of peace.

German, English, Spanish and French are all languages spread through blood and steel with the cost of millions of lives.

Whereas old church Slavonic (basically old Bulgarian) was spread not through the sword but through peace, knowledge and religion, therefore making the only peaceful planetary language.

Old church Slavonic is the language of God.

>>16526335
>Tonal language

German has always been irrelevant, French and russian are dying. English dominated all categories today.

>Frog

>>16522661
>russian
>language of anything
Its a language of gopnics and criminals right now.
t. russian

>>16522661
russian literature is but fanfiction of french literature.
pure trash.

>>16522661
Aviation

>>16526541
Tell me a Frenchie who writes like Zamyatin or Erofeev

>>16526517
this, imagine learning a language to read two books

Civilization.

>>16522661
>Russian and not French as the language of literature
Oh yes my favorite author is Tolstoyevsky and I let others know as well.

>>16522760
> single russian novel worth reading post 20th century
Lol, who cares about post 20th century. Russia's weakness is preromanticism, but even as such, only Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian and Chinese (classical and vernacuar) are superior

>>16526514
>English dominated all categories today.
Explains why the modern world is so trash then.

>>16526816
kek, gottem

>>16522661

prose basically
Specifically I think most people will have to admit that English is better for comedy something that many languages actually struggle with

>>16522661
This shit website

>>16526231
business and niggers, yes

>>16527129
kek

SCIENCE,
LITERATURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
DIPLOMACY
INTERNET,
THE AIR,
THE SEA,

TOTAL AND UTTER ANGLO DOMINATION

>>16522661
Mathematics and computer science. Most CS papers written by international authors are written in English. The only reason for this is because a lot of engineering standards committees (IEEE, W3, etc) write their standards in English, so it’s easier to get your invention adopted by writing in English yourself.

t. grad student

>>16522661
English is the language of
>finance
>diplomacy
>entertainment (including literature)
>the internet

>>16522704
Disgusting!

freedom and winning

>>16525737
>proud speaker of Polish
>kek

Almost spit out my coffee

>>16526620
Seethe

>>16522715
absolutely and unequivocally based and redpilled

>>16526571
Tell me a ruski who writes like Céline or Cendrars

>>16522687
Philo, Theon of Smyrna, Dio Chrysostom, Second Sophistic guys, Plutarch, Alcinous, Albinus, Apuleius, Sextus Empiricus, Numenius, Maximus of Tyre, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Plotinus, Origen, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Dexippus, Julian, Themistius, Synesius, Sallust, Hypatia, Syrianus, Proclus, Hermias, Ammonius, Hierocles, Damascius, Simplicius, Olympiodorus, Priscian, the guy who discovered Inertia, Pseudo-Dionysius, more than half of the church fathers, Stephanus of Alexandria...
And that's only the first thousand years.

>>16524146
Jawohl ich kann. Deutsch ist einfach

>>16525527
learn to read nigga

>>16522661
>russian is the language of literature
Massive cope and westernfag-pilled. Madarin is a better literature language, unironically. This is why I hate commie China so much, because they killed the history and culture and replaced it with state-generate bullshit.
>german is the language of philosophy
Again, massive fucking cope and westernfag-pilled. It took Westerners 8000 years to get to where Indians were 3,000 years ago.
>what is English the language of
Considering the English body of literature is superior to everything in the Western canon with exception only to Spanish, and that English is the only language being used in modern philosophy to do anything, and that the entire world uses English as the standard for diplomacy now, I would say it's the language of literature and philosophy in the West, and the language of diplomacy almost globally.
You guys are seriously fucking coping with some used-to-was bullshit. It's not the 20th century anymore - Europe doesn't and hasn't mattered, especially not fucking Germany, in either literature or philosophy for nearly half a century, and the best part is that you did it to yourselves. Europe is only relevant in diplomacy because of Russia, and Russia is only relevant because of the US global hegemony.
You guys need to stop LARPing as Euros. You aren't Euros, and you never will be. It's honestly sad and kind of creepy.

>>16522661
>>German is the language of philosophy
almost had me, nice bait

>>16522676
kek

>>16522715
Viadinho

French is the language of lit, poesy, diplomacy

>>16522661
>What is English the language of?

better literature

>>16522661
shitposting

>>16522661
For universal translations, I guess.

>>16522661
ZA WARUDO

It's always funny to see filthy third-worlders complain about English while speaking English.

>>16522715
Basado

>>16522715
εδράζω

>>16525407
LoL, nobody in the world cared for the English language before about 1850.

>>16522715
>English is the language of Science
What is Greek?

>>16534713
Agreed, what is Greek? Who uses Greek?

This "Greek" sounds interesting.

>>16522715
ἀπόκτεινε

>>16522661
Its nearly universally accepted as the business language

>>16522661
English is the language that you are required to speak in order to post these snarky memes.

>>16522661
English is the language of Atheism.

English is the language of power, it was fostered on the ancient isle of Thule.

>>16522661
economics

>>16525374
>It is a global language
The pidgin bastardizations non-anglos speak for the risk of being left in the dark are cute, but the language belongs to us only.

>>16525407
>Russians
>no inferiority complex
Maybe not about literature, but that's about it.

>>16525527
>using inductive logic to prove your an idiot.

>>16534880
Basically 50% of the words in math, chemistry and physics is greek words.

Even the fucking words mathematics, chemistry and physics are greek. Moron.

Around here English would be considered the language of literature or at least poetry but that's debatable.

>>16522679
Greek has not been the language of philosophy in a long time.
The best philosophy, math, and science in the past 300 years has been written in German.

>>16522661
fucking all of them

>>16522736
>>16525465
Should we start using latin again?

>>16522661
shitposting

>>16522676
basado

>>16522715
pedale jebany

>>16525407
>Russians don't care cause they don't have an inferiority complex

did you read War and Peace?

>>16522760
Life and Fate.

>>16522683
Shut up, faggot.
Queer.
Fruitcake.
Cold steel, hot heat.
Let it burn.

That’s my slam poetry

>>16522661
A German goes to China on a business trip. They speak English to one another.

>>16535900
>greek words
adopted into English

>>16535900
I guess that's true but knowing μεταβαλλω means "change" or προτω means first it isn't immediately apparent what a metabolism and proton means in the context of science.

>>16531202
Indians dont have philosophy, obscure mystic ramblings are not philosophy