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tbqh, I agree with you. Many languages lack features that others have. Most importantly, 95+% of languages lack scientific and technical terminology without which it would be nearly impossible to think easily about most scientific concepts. Perhaps the "major languages" of the world are on equal-ish footing (moon-rune users excepted, of course), but there is no way that one can think as easily about certain concepts in Wolof as in English. Maybe in theory, every language can be roughly equal, but the intensity of usage in certain domains definitely expands what can be done with a language. In other words, there may not be a best system of grammar, but there are languages that are more developed than others in terms of especially vocabulary.

>>9091420
>except

I mean, I don't disagree with you, but don't be a retard, OP. The doctrine of equality (cross-linguistic; cross-cultural; cross-racial; cross-gender; etc.) is the cancer of our civilisation right now. What you're experiencing is not intelligence; it's the very normal phenomenon of looking with your eyes and seeing what's in front of you. People outside of university do it all the time. Your job is to see something else.

Your job is to learn to say 'there cannot exist equal things' just as you say 'these things are equal'. That is what the genuinely smart students around you are doing - those who've intuited the rules of the game.

>>9091435
AFIK (non linguist) you're not contradicting any linguist dogma. They just don't think that's an inherent difference since you can always borrow words.

>>9091309
/pol/ is the endgame of all boards, just embrace it cuck!

>>9091654
/lit/ is the endgame of /pol/ - it has to earn us.

>>9091654
Amen.

>>9091280
I thought it pretty overrated. I prefer the gospel of Luke.

Ezra Pound actually proves that translations might as well be considered separate books from the original.

Finished it last year was a poetic orgy

I don't know but I recommend anything but Pinecone. I'm in the same spot, so I got up and went to keep on reading Vineland, and it actually hurt trying to follow whatever was going on, and it wasn't even any particularly difficult passage, just the band playing on the mob wedding.

>>9091192
Read some Kharms: very short, funny, absurd, usually starts like a demented fairy tale, you can start and stop wherever.

>>9091192
>>9091259
Or, if you must read sci-fi, grab the Cyberiad.

>>9091159
WUZ

>>9091162
PROLES

>>9091165
AND

>>9091126
>A mary-sue
Please explain I am too new for this phrase.

>>9091130
A Mary Sue is an idealized and seemingly perfect fictional character, a young or low-rank person who saves the day through unrealistic abilities, sometimes with the intent to inspire young or marginalized people and show them that even they can have as great of a potential as leading characters. Often this character is recognized as an author insert or wish-fulfillment.

>>9091135

what if the character is a god-character tho? not him btw

>>9091122
chckd

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He is the best living author right now, you can start with almost any his most well known books.

>>9091288
he looks a bit silly desu

>>9091068
No.

>>9091068
Yes, Google will basically run the world by the end of this century.

>>9091068
a cyber middle-topia

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>it's another one of these threads

Turn off your computer.

>>9090960
I'm a Canuck so I read The Star, National Post, and browse a few local papers (fuck metro land, also please employ me)

Outside of that I'll read the Walrus once and a while, Macleans, not many other magazines for news

Websites I'll usually read online versions of newspapers I read plus CBC for national news and BBC or Aljazeera for international news

>>9091020
Please be a troll.

>Muh news source isn't """"""""""""objective""""""""""""
Kill yourself
I read IB Times, The Hill & Reuters for news, The American Conservative and The Week for propaganda and ProPublica and Public Discourse for bantz

>>9090920
that's an interesting bit of mysticism, any books on its esoterica

>>9091054
is that a question?

>>9091086
yes

pic unrealated

>>9090810
read infinite jest. throw away marx.

>>9090894
No, I have to read it to get all the false assumptions he makes to btfo leftists

By noting how many times you've been retold the stories contained in Genesis, Exodus, and more

Do what you're suppose to do. Imagine it as a science fiction YA novel with no redeemable characteristics. It's more of a guilty pleasure then anything else.

>>9090722
Read the parts you don't know about. Then read the parts you thought you knew.

>>9090617
Can someone sum up anti fragile?

>>9090621
Embracing stressors and randomness is good if you can become stronger from them

>>9090636
is the answer to that diversifying risk?

>>9090616
Move on to the Hebrews and Christians

>>9090616
You continue with the Romans.

>>9090616
Go back and read them over again and keep repeating that.
You start with the Greeks, and you end with the Greeks.