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Do you consider English a latin or germanic based language?
If both explain which one has a greater influence on syntax, grammar, and conventions on the language?
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Neither.
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>>9387345
If youre not being edgy, then
where was it derived from?
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>>9387336
english *IS* a germanic language with great lexical influence from french and latin. this isn't open to debate.
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So what comes next in literature? 2017-04-16 01:33:18 Post No.9387332
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So what comes next in literature?
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Is po-mo the final frontier?
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vidyature
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Neomodernism
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>>9387332
>final frontier
Someone hasn't read Hegel.
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What's it called when an author writes elongated sentences, without much punctuation and repetitive use of the world "and"?
"and.......and.......and.....and.....and....and....."
I'm thinking like how cormac mcarthy and per petterson write.
who else writes like them?
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I believe the term is polysyndeton.
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>>9387327
>polysyndeton
fantastic.
can anyone recommend any polysyndetonous writers?
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Any use of punctuation apart from a full stop and apostrophe is for retarded preschoolers.
I will allow one comma per 80 pages, or else I'd drop your stupid book,
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Which 20th Century Irish novelists are worth checking out beyond the big 3?
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A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN
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By big three I'm assuming you mean Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett.
Why not Seamus Heaney?
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Stop feeling resentment.
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baby dont spook me
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>>9387262
How?
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>>9387429
try a dose of russian fatalism
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Where do I start with this pretty boy? Also, a recommended translation.
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Hannays is the best translation. Start with Either/Or.
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Learn danish
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>>9387174
I'd recommend you start with his doctoral thesis, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates.
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Alright /lit/, I have two weeks to write a review paper of around 10.000 words. I have to compare the Italian and Greek armed resistance during WW2. Any tips?
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start w the greeks
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>>9387217
Why?
I'm having a hard time finding English sources on the Italian case though and my Italian isn't quite on point...
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how did the reformation affect the philosophical landscape? which epistemological and metaphysical theories gained wider acceptance for example as a result of the wider intellectual change?
question rephrased: if we ignore their purely religious ideas, what were the philosophical theories spread by different protestant and catholics?
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/his/
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>>9386972
usually I would but they are a bit illiterate when it comes to philosophy
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>>9386967
Protestant ideas lead to liberalism and individualism, but as far as actual philosophy goes it was never very important. It only destroyed the old foundations so new ones had to be built, but there was never much of a "Protestant philosophy". It's so divided and internally incoherent it is almost always pushed to the side.
Recommendation on this, Whose Justice Which Rationality by Alsadair MacIntyre.
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Help me get my lazy ass to read 2017-04-16 10:34:26 Post No.9386960
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Help me get my lazy ass to read
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In elementary school I loved reading, but after reading boring as shit books I kinda drifted away.
During high school I was a lazy fuck and didn't read because I spent too much time wasting my life away.
I really want to get into reading now because it just seems so peaceful. What are some good books to help me get back into reading? In particular, science fiction/fantasy books.
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>>9386960
you're such a fucking idiot man, just search the question instead of making shitty threads with shitty questions that are answered a billion times a day. fuck off, seriously. no one cares about your "wow i stopped reading >:(" bullshit, you're lazy and no book is going to get you "back into" reading.
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>>9386960
I'm gonna help you out here.
Read 'The Golden Cockerel' by Juan Rulfo. It's not sci-fi/fantasy, but it will get you back into reading.
It helped by my friend who hated books all his life. He was my roommate and I just left it in his stuff to read it.
He's become an avid reader since then.
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>>9386960
Catcher in the Rye
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What do you think of Walt Whitman? Leaves of Grass was an odd book of poetry to me but I enjoyed his perspectives.
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>>9386901
I don't want to give up on it but sometimes I feel it's just too American for me, that I miss a lot of things he talks about.
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He's simply amazing, and still very much alive. A true poet before anything else you can say about him.
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>>9386909
I can definitely imagine. It's a piece of the present and that time has long passed. Where did you grow up, if you don't mind me asking?
Hi guys, what are the most valid books against neopositivism - quine view of philosophy ?
> Even a generic book that touches different authors
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*cough* Nietzsche.
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>>9386885
I was searching for something more focused on theory of knowledge.
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>>9386888
then i can't help you, I've only read Nietzsche
People told me fascism, and by extension Righties, never produced anything of worth. Then I started reading Ezra Pound. WTF?
What else were they lying about?
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Conservatives have written a lot of good books. Fascist writers are more rare because the ideology doesn't lend itself to introspection and literary pursuits. The fascist version of a novel would be a tank column lost in Ukrainian wheat fields or something like that. I've heard that there are some interesting French fascist intellectuals but they aren't translated sadly. There's also a German war correspondent who sounds like he might be worth reading but I can't speak German either.
For some reason nobody is rushing to translate books by Nazis and fascists.
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>>9386832
>anything of worth
>Ezra Pound
nice b8
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>>9386852
Kys pleb.
>2017
>Not reading The Cantos
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his theories may be even right, but he remains a fat fanatic and an incredibly boring thinker
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>>9386791
>his theories may be even right
But they're not.
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like if owned
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>>9386791
His theories aren't wrong, just outdated.
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Is there any literature or ideologies that will help me annihilate my sexual and romantic desires? I've remained abstinent for long periods of time, but it always end up just intensifying my lust and loneliness. Short of castrating myself, is there a way to completely eliminate these desires so that I can stop being controlled by them and devote my energy and concentration to higher ideals?
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Live a healthy sexual life.
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I've done so, but I've realized that it no longer benefits me. To put it plainly, I don't trust women anymore, and the only thing that draws me to women now is sex and some degree of companionship. I can satisfy my need for companionship with friends, but my need for sex never goes away even though it's at normal levels. I'm not satisfied with things like religious abstinence and nofap because they are simply about restraining yourself from desire. But I wish to eliminate desire altogether. I don't want sex to remain a constant distraction from higher moral and spiritual callings.
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>>9386710
Christianity.
>mfw i sent a letter out to all students in my year calling for them to join the Christian faith and fulfil the principles of the sermon on the mount in its fullest regard and people now stare at me in class and replied to me by saying i was weird and a "crazy liberal"
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lol you're a faggot
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not even slightly funny
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