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9064173 No.9064173 [Reply] [Original]

You fuckers didn't tell me I needed to know French for this

>> No.9064178

That cover is so gross. But pretty genius.

>> No.9064237

Google " Lolita French phrases" and you should find a wiki books page to translate some, but not all.
>>9064178
>that slightly uneven bottom part
Hmmm

>> No.9064243

>>9064237
it's a sucker

>> No.9064246

>>9064243
What do you mean by this?

>> No.9064248

>>9064243
No shit, Sherlock.

>> No.9064250

>>9064237
fuck's sake I'm not going to have my phone in one hand and my ereader in another

>> No.9064254

>>9064250
They aren't even used that often, either skip them or put in a bit of effort,
And by a bit, I mean the least possible amount, it's literally explaining the phrases for you.

>> No.9064257

>>9064178
whats gross about a lollipop, anon?

>> No.9064261

There is an edition called The Annotated Lolita which contains translations of all of the French.

>> No.9064265

Nabokov likes to show off.

You should have got The Annotated Lolita.

Also, German > French,

>> No.9064267

>>9064261
I'm grabbing it now actually

>> No.9064295

Oh wow the ebook version doesn't even link to the footnotes properly

I'll just go fuck myself then

>> No.9064298

>>9064295
ebooks are fucking trash. Every time I go to buy a book (I only buy hard copies) I look at the reviews and they always talk about how terrible the ebook is.

>> No.9064302

>>9064298
Nah most ebooks have okay formatting even plays. Being able to enjoy lit at 0 opportunity cost is great.

>> No.9064312

>>9064298
Of the 500 books I have, maybe 10 have fucked up formatting. And I paid for none of those. That's a pretty good statistic.

>> No.9064314

>>9064302
>>9064312
>paying for ebooks
cucks

>> No.9064315
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>>9064173
>not being fluent in french

>> No.9064318

>>9064314

>>9064312
>And I paid for none of those.

you retard

>> No.9064344

How much French in Ada?

>> No.9064389
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>>9064173
here I made it a modern classic

>> No.9064404

>>9064389
>written by gujira

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>>9064265
Oh I'm sorry did the Germans magically all start speaking another language while I was gone? Did they all start learning a language that doesn't sound like a retarded pigfucker choking on horsecock while we were sleeping and spring it into action one day? How about a language that doesn't decide one day, "Hey, you know how sexing up every noun is stupid. Well, let's do this but make it even fucking stupider. And let's make the word for girl neuter because fuck people trying to speak this language."? Glad they finally decided that. Did they decide to fucking accept that more than 12 letters exist, so every word doesn't sound exactly the same, which is again like an elderly man choking to death on his own phlegm? Perhaps they adopted a language that didn't decide, "Wait, you know how fucking disgustingly gluttural our language sounds. And I mean absolutely fucking disgusting, like to the point it actually, literally, unironically drives you to disgust when heard? Yeah, well let's put a bunch of stupid dots over our letters to make it even worse, because fuck other people." Did they create a language that only sounds right when screeched by an autistic manlet in front of thousands of other autistic manlets to say something about the jews? Did they invent a language that didn't stop inventing words at 1200 B.C., so now whenever they want to name something they throw 50 fucking words from the fucking dinosaur times together just to name a fucking emu?

No, they didn't do any of those things. Fuck off you stupid little fucker. French is better than German in literally, literally every single way.

Never post on my board again you stupid little nazi-loving cuck.

>> No.9064496

>>9064470
>too untermensch to learn the language of das master race :^)
>stay mad, pleb

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>>9064470

>> No.9064579

>>9064470
woah

>> No.9064599

When I meet sections written in another language, I skip them.
If the writer intended for me to read them, he could write in English.

>> No.9064607

>>9064470
Pasta tier sperging you blundering autist

>> No.9064617

>>9064173
>he doesn't know french
Why are you here

>> No.9064629

>>9064470
Mädchen is neuter because chen is neuter.

German isnt especially guttural, by the way

>> No.9064721

>open /lit/
>4 separate threads about Lolita

>> No.9064745
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9064745

At the time I started reading Lolita, I had been studying French every day for about 11 months.

I understood about 75% of the French our friend Humbert Humbert kept using. The remaining quarter was just idiomatic expressions, in which case resulted in me having to look up the translations anyway.

A friend of mine whom is fluent in French, says that the inclusion of those phrases didn't add much anyway; I agree with her. They were probably just a way for Nabokov to flex his language skills.

If you care enough about missing the translations to the point of making a thread about it, you would have bought yourself an annotated version. Not worth it, really. They add just as much weight as does the French in Jane Eyre.

>> No.9064777

Ew wtf that cover is pretty goddamn offensive

>> No.9064781

>>9064173
If you think the untranslated passages in Lo are bad fucking brace yourself for Ada.

>> No.9064782

>>9064745
By the image you posted you probably don't comprehend English literature particularly well either so its kind of a moot point

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9064955

>>9064782
Yeah, you're right.

I just read books so that I can name drop on 4chan.

>> No.9064983

>>9064250
>e-reader

>> No.9064991

>>9064298
Why can't Amazon properly assign reviews to the book the assholes are reviewing? Everything is lumped together in a chaotic unhelpful mess. Didn't these niggers get into the game by selling books initially? How are they so bad at it?

>> No.9065037

>>9064470
Do it again Bomber Harris

>> No.9065087

>>9064298
i only read ebooks and haven't encountered many problems.

>> No.9065107

>>9064257
It's suggestive. Look how the stick is inside the lollipop

>> No.9065125

>>9065107
Suggestive of what?

>> No.9065165

>>9065125
fucking

>> No.9065170

>>9065165
Are you a virgin?

>> No.9066131

>>9064781
Is there any online resource to help with those?

>> No.9066146

>>9064246
>Lollipop

>> No.9066910

>>9064344
Ada's got a fuckton, as well as some Russian and maybe German iirc

>> No.9066934

>>9064470
fantastic post

the krauts are reeling after this brutality

>> No.9066960

>>9064173
They make the dirtiest covers for this book.

>> No.9066964

Does your ereader not have a translation option when you highlight?

>> No.9066967

if you don't know French already you're either a pleb or in primary school

>> No.9066981

>>9064173
>Not knowing french
>2020-3
C'est vraiment dégueulasse

>> No.9067040

>>9064470
lawdie
new pasta added to pasta folder

>> No.9067137

>>9064257
It's a fucking dick, I don't even saw the lollipop, maybe I've seen so much porn

>> No.9067164

All you guys talking about dicks and lollies
I just see red panties and a cameltoe

>> No.9067227

>>9066981
I'm learning it now. I should be able to read simple books and news within a month.

>> No.9067245

>A book written by a Russian
>NOT expecting French

What the fuck?

>> No.9067263

>>9067227
Le Petit Prince is one of the best starter (children's) books for a newcomer to French.

>> No.9067266

>>9067263
Thanks. I'll probably get it when I know more words, maybe when I'm around a thousand

>> No.9067274

>>9064173
A Russian writes a book in English about Americans, using French to explain Russian shit, all while it's the late 40's/early 50's.

Nabokov was /AN ABSOLUTE MADMAN/

I can't believe /HE ACTUALLY DID IT/