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there's not really such a thing as proper punctuation

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>>9117525

>>9117518
In this case the punctuation is there thanks to grammatical descriptivists. It's there to imitate speech. No, you don't need to put a comma there, but someone has because when it was said out loud, there was a pause at that position. Now why was there a pause? Because the sentence should read: "The return value is ignored. Why? Because we want to continue etc etc" it's basically grammar as a study versus grammar in common use.

Prescriptivists wouldn't use a comma there, descriptivists would. You get to pick which one you agree with.

>>9117143

The one about the espionage.

>>9117143
"How To Survive Your Midlife Crisis"

>>9117143
>>9117149
"You Could Totally Stop Terrorists If You Felt Like It (people can hardly notice your beer belly)"

>>9117134
Philosophy

>>9117134
why not the correct one?
>Christianism

>>9117134
>No new posts
Francis, Aquinas, Abelard, Anselm, Augustine, Boethius, Erasmus, Grosseteste, Ignatius, Lombard, More, Suarez, William of Ockham, Descartes, de Maistre, Malebranche, Pascal, de Tocqueville, Vico, Anscombe, de Certeau, Chersterton, Claudel, Copleston, Girard, Ilich, MacIntyre, Maritain, Marcel, McLuhan, Merton, Mendel, Taylor, Vattimo, etc. … why not both?

most french thing ive ever seen

>>9116897
>- The philosophy of infinities, and different perspectives about it. I read one and it was terrible.

Stopped reading here.

T'es en 1ère L, n'est-ce pas ?

If you're actually serious about any of this, and I sure hope you aren't, here are a few things I'll put here, because I'm bored, and I believe everyone should have read them.
>Some kind of book about the philosophy of chemistry
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chemistry/
>A meta-ethical analysis of utilitarianism, virtue ethics, and deontology
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
>A description and analysis of language
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Claude Lévi Strauss' Tristes Tropiques
R.v.o Quine's Word and Object
>The philosophy of infinities
There is no such thing, but you might want to have a look at The Emperor's new Mind by Roger Penrose

Yeah, I was high in a Barnes & Noble, Psychology section, browsing bottom row of a shelf, and saw this book. I pulled it out and opened to the Introduction (or Preface, or whatever, it's been years) and started reading. The guy starts talking about how he was in a department store trying to buy some jeans, and there were all these different kinds of jeans to choose from, so he called over one of the employees, and was like, "Hey, can you help me out here? There are so many kinds of jeans," and the employer was like, "Yeah, there's quite a few, you've got these kind, and these kind, and these kind too, oh, and these kind..." And the way it was written you could see in your head the camera zooming in on this guy's face as he's listening to the department-store employee babbling about jeans, and his face just getting more and more horrified. Basically the guy went shopping for jeans, got overwhelmed, and went home and started writing a book.

>>9116763
kek, but is it worth reading, mate?

>>9116772
I don't know, I didn't get past that part.

It means he just wa

>>9116725
He was bothered by the heat so he killed a man to get into the shade. Diagnosis: anti-social personality disorder.

>>9116725
Mersault is a dirty primate like the rest of the dregs, no matter how "absent" he believes himself to be.

>"THE SUN MADE ME DO IT"
lol

my diary

>>9116709
his wife's sons diary

>>9116704
>To Kill a Mockingbird

Would have to agree here. It's nothing but a diatribe against poor white people, and how their wealthy betters need to put them down like dogs when they get out of line.

Sticky

>>9116669

>Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea
>Orwell
Animal Farm and 1984, surprised you need someone to tell you what his best books are
>Steinback
The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden
>Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov
>Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations

Those are all trashy writers except Dosty but if you read him in translation you might ad well kill yourself rn.

>>9116617
I swear this guy is a Rotherham leak away from becoming an hero

>>9116617
whats it called my woes?

He wrote a novel? Link?

I always go with the primary literature my man. If it gets too complicated then I consult secondary sources.

Learning about philosophies from a different guy who was trying to disprove them probably isn't the best way to get the full picture.

Stirner was the philosophy equivalent of that guy who stood behind the Roman Emperor whispering "remember you're human"

Yes start with that. It will be dense and overwhelming but reading philosophy is something you have to build skill at.

>>9116481
currently reading four different books

Only a philistine would gorge themselves on more than one text at a time. I turn my nose up at those deluded fools, even higher for those that proclaim it a badge of honor.

>>9116551
You're an insufferable brainlet, faggot.

>>9116471
Lurk more and wait for a shelf thread. You'll find plenty of pleb and pat shelves in those.

>>9116471
is that gass' shelf?

you spent too much on 18th century. Lumières are overrated.

>>9116354
Success

>>9116354
Never mind maneuvers, just always go straight at them.

>>9116354
Read Miss Snark, and visit Evil Editor. Seriously. They have everything you could ever want to know about the process.

if anything casanova wrote too much

>>9116246
at best they write pseudy little articles to publish in shit like The New Yorker. Reminder that if you are not an introvert, you have no hope being a writer.

>>9116246
>>9116252
You are all just pissed that women like us better
How about put it this way. If we wanted to be writers we would beat you at it every time :)

Literatura de los hijos is boring. Zambra is boring. Bonsai is a shitty movie. Formas de volver a casa is boring. Facsimil sounds interesting but haven't read it. He's got a short story about the school I atended, that was neat.

>>9116234

>Criticizing the book using the movie as a reference

All chilean films not made by Pablo Larraín fucking sucks.

>Zambra
>Pablo Larraín
Please read more books and watch more movies, your pleb is showing.