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When did you realize that English is a stupid language for stupid people?
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>swedejeet making threads again
>in english
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You do not have to make the same thread multiple times. There is a reason you aren't getting much replies, it's because nobody likes your posts.
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We're still The Empire. Deal with it.
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Imagine being an anglophone and hearing that Spanish has two words for "to be", one used for what philosophy calls essence, the other for what philosophy calls accident, and then instead of finding this interesting and wanting to learn more about it, you refuse to learn more about it out of pride. It's almost as if pride and curiosity are mutually exclusive. The Bible says pride is a sin. Anglophones are godless and destined for hell. Utilitarianism/pragmatism and culture are mutually exclusive. Anglophones are utilitarians/pragmatists, aka uncultured.
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>>25420103
I lament they are the most influential nations in the world. I swear they are slowly killing the ramains of culture everywhere.
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>>25420897
>ramains
lol
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>>25418264
When will latins learn their place firmly under the bootheel of their Germano-Latin betters?
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>>25418264
if its so stupid then why are you speaking it?

>>25420897
I'm gonna turn you into "ramain" noodles
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>>25420103
KWAB
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Based SwedeKANG dabbing on EOP.
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If you want to open up duscourse in your language, you're welcome to create an empty thread about it
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>>25420103
You lost. Get over it.
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>>25418264
His name is literally dumass. I'm not reading his book.
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>>25422413
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>>25420103
>Spanish has two words for "to be", one used for what philosophy calls essence, the other for what philosophy calls accident
so then English does have these two words as well. they're just different from 'to be'.
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>>25420103
and yet you wrote this post in English, pendejo
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English is the single greatest language for prose writing and only loses in one single department perhaps to Chinese and Japanese for the fun that can be played using pinyin/kanji
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>>25422576
pinyin is the romanization anon
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>>25422612
My bad
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>>25421634
Oh careful here comes the grammar police. I had a typo, so what? I have no respect for this banana language, so don't bother. I just use it for practical reasons.
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>>25422477
done that cunt
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>>25422477
retard
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>>25423973
not wrong though is he
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>>25423263
I have no respect for you either, favela monkey
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>The "sl-" phonestheme. English/Germanic sl- is a classic sound-symbolic cluster (Bloomfield's stock example) connoting the slippery/slimy/slovenly/disparaged — slime, slip, slop, slouch, slug, slag, slur, sly, slack, sloppy, slovenly, slut, slattern, schlampe, slampa. These words did not all descend from one shared root (many have separate or uncertain etymologies), nor is the pattern coincidence — they converged on the sl- onset by sub-morphemic sound-meaning association.

How is this even possible though?
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>>25425535
What a nice big woman. You think she's six foot?
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>>25424853
>ser
>estar
vs
>to be
Retard
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>>25425972
he already explained why you're wrong
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>>25422576
Are you referring to how the japanese use a combination of Kanji ideographs; the two sylabic katakana, hiragana scripts; and annotative furigana intended to describe the correct reading of a kanji?

Furigana jokes can be hilarious.
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>>25426026
I said words for TO BE, words which are translated to TO BE, fucking brainlet.
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>>25418264
I was forced to learn french because of anglo tendencies towards censorship, a lot of books i like are censored by muttmericans, their classics included, The adventures of huckleberry finn is extremely censored
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>>25420103
so Spanish has no unifying word encompassing both concepts? Embarrassing
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>>25426588
I knew a bit of French from a young age (Swiss) but went all in using French for weeb stuff as a teenager (yes, I really can't learn Japanese), and later for translations in general. Censorship was part of it (the trannylators were not as bad as today but censorship already happened), although secondary relative to writign quality.
I only read in English for works originally in the language. It's funny how bad translations into English are in comparison to French or even German. No one not an EOP and speaking a non-caveman language should ever read translations in English, which makes it more puzzling that good portion of /lit/ is asking about the "best" (least bad) translation of particular works.



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