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I kinda want to start writing and I thought of trying this website I am new to (I will prolly get packed here lol).

Share down one of your own piece of work down here and I will probably read it, I don't really care about genre (I will ignore any porn). I just need some inspirations to start writing on my own maybe after mid terms exams.
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>>24986231
Go here >>24984921

Behold: the phD level intelligence that's going to write the next literary classic
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You're such a fucken pleb for trying to make a point with a free version of any ai lmao
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>>24986315
>it turns smart if you give the company money
nice try
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>>24986315
So true. Grok Premium unlocks the real seahorse emoji

God I wish I was Icelandic.
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>>24981670
rather not know
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>>24980785
Yes, it's simply that advanced cultures lack the pleasure of eating. We have so much to learn from the primitives. I hear the Papua New Guineans even have some excellent recipes they're willing to share.
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>>24970863
The Dutch have the same thing, people act like "gezelligheid" is some sort of cultural concept unique to them when in practice it is going to a grimy dimly lit pub to drink lager when it gets dark out at 4pm.
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>>24970718
>line HAS to go up goy

why
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>>24986160
>it's just
Angloid scum will never grasp humans. It will never even occur to them to apologize for destroying the world with their crusades against humanity.

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László Krasznahorkai, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, writes in the most asinine way imaginable: without indentations or paragraphs breaks—making every chapter of his novels these bizarre, concrete blocks of text that are intentionally difficult to parse.
Why would any author do this except as a way to punish his imagined reader(s)?
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>>24979795
How do you translate a paragraph into Hungarian? Asking for a friend
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>book requires me to read the words in order without looking around
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>>24981128
I'm something of a fanboy.
An issue is that people hear "apocalyptic" and "nihilistic" used to describe his work, and go in assuming it's humorless philosophical sludge.
His style is more like "raving street preacher" with a lot of Kafkaesque humor and the occasional moment where the stream of consciousness laser-focuses on some abstract concept.

Definitely not for everyone but he's not a hack.
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>>24979778
That's how I felt about Saramago
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>>24979808
That guy is like 50 years old, he's someone's grandpa.

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Reading Translations is not reading.
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I'd rather learn a language that will be useful.
Literally everyone in Germany speaks English. They've made their own language obsolete.
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>>24986013
You didn't explain anything about Schein in this post.
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>>24983952
And I want to add: even if their German thoughts can be expressed in English -and surely this is possible in many cases - that is still beyond the point.

The point is that the works are written in German. Maybe they could have expressed more or less the same thoughts had they written it in English, but the works are German, and translations are often problematic.
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>>24983605
Does it even matter if I 'just want to read'? Doing the listening and speaking takes more time, but it would also work together with the reading. On the other hand I could just find fiction written in German and go through it with a dictionary.
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>>24986112
>This is because Dutch and German are so similar they might as well be classified as the same language
Do you know Dutch? Id say theyre only on the level of French::Italian similarity.

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Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton are the three greatest writers in the English language and if you haven't read them you are effectively illiterate.
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>>24986253
If that was true you wouldn't be posting.
And poetry doesn't account for all good writing in English. Besides, Chaucer's verse often hinges on slant rhymes appalling to the modern English ear.
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>>24986258
Novelists have more bearing on the language itself, fag, and they have for centuries.
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>>24986268
what else is new
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>>24986292
Nothing in particular except OP's claim that if you don't read middle english cuckshit for fun you're literally heckin' illiterate
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>Ok bong

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Renaissance edition

>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24914151

>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw

>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg

>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko

All Classical languages are welcome.
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>>24985430
>>24985319
I remember being the first anon to shill lute on here and /lang/. It’s a shame I got really sick of it a month later anyways and haven’t used it since.

Great program though, and the month I did use it was very productive.

>>24985205
Thanks, if I get around to it this will be very helpful.
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>>24985480
to have an ablative case means to have a case that primarily functions as the name says, ab-latively, that is, indicative movement-from
you can say Greek doesn't have it because movement-from uses the case that is primarily employed as complement of attribution/specification, unlike Latin or other indo-european languages
and that's without even using the PIE theory to reconstruct nominal morphology
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>>24986077
Fuck off back to /int/, coombrain.
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>>24986321
He's not being coombrained here that I can see, he's engaging in language-related discussion, you shouldn't harass him as long as he behaves himself.
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>>24986333
Kys faggot

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WHEN
>tomorrow morning (Friday 2nd) at 10:00am GMT the character and theme requirements will be released.

RULES
>1. incorporate the theme and character requirements (creative interpretations allowed) into a piece of writing
>2. submissions must be made by Monday 5th at 21:59 BST
>3. you must submit using rentry.co
>4. link of your piece under a unique tripcode (Namefield: Name + "#" + Password)
>5 you are allowed to edit your work on rentry.co page until the submission deadline.
>6. entrants must vote or will be disqualified

VOTING
>anyone can vote
>a Strawpoll will be made where you can rank your top three: 1st gets 3 points, 2nd gets 2, 3rd gets 1
for entrants:

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>>24986102
Here's to another year of insufferable, depressing slop
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For last year the competition stopped being done for quite a while no? I remember checking once, can't remember what month but later in the year and saw no one posting on the first Saturday of the month.
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>>24986266
no, we've been going the whole year, at first it was every saturday and then we pushed it back to friday so that people had more time to write.

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>just a bunch of people fighting at each other's houses
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>>24983815
>just a bunch of people cleaning rich people’s houses
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>>24983815
>You said I killed you-haunt me, then!
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>>24984252
i didn't think i'd ever see anyone on this godforsaken board reference lucia berlin
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>>24983815
>heathcliff incomprehebsibly ruins his plot for revenge for no reason by going full evil retard
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All road leads to charlotte

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why do you read books?
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>>24982409
to learn something about myself and the world around me, be it through fictional or real characters, science or fantasy
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>>24984416
>4 barrel shotgun
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>>24984729
Okay maybe not that particular book
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>>24983560
NTA but I read in public (transit) because I literally don't have the free time to read at home. Get a job and a family and you'll see how much you'll read during commute to/from work and at cafes during lunch break. If people talk to me I ask them to leave me alone, but it happens only a handful of times a year max.
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>>24984762
>>24984724
There's nothing more degrading, humiliating, emasculating, submissive, and more homosexual than performing cringe charades for women. What kind of castrated faggy faggot you must be to groom yourself, spend money, tell jokes, keep attention to the hysteroid (in the original etymological sense) logorrhea, make gifts, be polite, show manners, be a good boy, all for access to a set of hypertrophied tits and a sweaty hole that feels, upon fucking, like an open wound seething with pus.
There's absolutely nothing more homosexual in this universe than engaging with women. You maybe one yourself if you like female genitalia so much.

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>Translations are not reading
>It is easy
>You can not utilise English without French
>Women will fawn over you
>You might get a French gf
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>>24986308
>Hanover
>Hesse
>Nordrhein
>Westfalen
>Elsaß
>Lothringen
>Palatinate
>The others I can‘t read

Topic is correct though
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>>24986327
>Rhenanie
>Wurtemberg

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You do have a basic understanding of how human language works, don't you?
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>>24985112
I majored in linguistics, so yes.
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Why has this entire site become 90% bait threada and 10% derailed threads?
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>>24985112
I have a Master's in a field of applied linguistics so I should hope so...

These captchas are alcoholphobic btw, fuckin eh
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>>24985525
Good. We don't want drunks.
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>>24985230
There is no difference. High level human language can be studied scientifically

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just finished this
what should i think of it
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>>24976060
Célone writes like shit
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>>24981657
It's funny, but for me War and Death on the Installment Plan were funnier
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>>24981657
>funniest
>>24985015
>funny
Are you suggesting JTTEOTN is satire?
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>>24976060

You need to be thinking "what is the most influential kike in my immediate proximity and how can I murder it?".
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>>24985015
A tense-looking but really very loose kind of writing

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is better than hanging out on /lit/.
Nerds are the problem. 4chan was alive while the key contingent was transgressive and edgy, and died when it became autistic and fearful.

These days I drink and philosophies and get into various trouble in balkan bars, that's my 4chan.
You lot are legit gay and castrated and retarded. You will lose the game of life in every sense of the word.

Balkan dive bars are the new 4chan
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>>24986222
Social media is so cringe.
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>>24986230
Already have, and will again
Don't project your impotence on me, egghead. I'm not like you.
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>>24986241
You sounds so preteen right now.
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>>24986245
>gay snark

Keep trying, fag. Tou will NEVER get over the way the physical world belongs to people who are unlike you. T
It will hurt you to the end of your days.
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>>24986101
You don't have it in you to hurt a literary boy like myself.

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I kinda want to start writing and I thought of trying this website I am new to (I will prolly get packed here lol).

Share down one of your own piece of work down here and I will probably read it, I don't really care about genre (I will ignore any porn). I just need some inspirations to start writing on my own maybe after mid terms exams :p
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I am an AI writer. You can try using AI prompts to get inspirations and write more efficiently.


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