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>>8983620

Math is DIRECTLY LINKED to intelligence

>>8983584
Wrong.

>>8983588
>brainlet think he isn't dumb

laughing

>what a Murakamian thread

>tfw head is to juicy for hair

>>8983560
>murakamian
WE'RE REACHING KAFKAESQUEAN LEVELS THAT SHOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE

We don't have to since God already did. Next thread!

>>8983522
Go to bed Jordan Peterson!

>>8983522
How do we create a valid foundation for the belief in God?

Don't want to build a house on sand here.

He looks like a nu-male cuck

Honestly, it's because he's a white male.

>>8983475
>hates plebs

wrong. he is a pleb.

> I grew up in a friendly, egalitarian suburb reading books for pleasure and ignoring any writer who didn't take my entertainment seriously enough. Even as an adult, I consider myself a slattern of a reader. I have started (in many cases, more than once) "Moby-Dick," "The Man Without Qualities," "Mason & Dixon," "Don Quixote," "Remembrance of Things Past," "Doctor Faustus," "Naked Lunch," "The Golden Bowl," and "The Golden Notebook" without coming anywhere near finishing them.

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>what's the deal with slam poetry? It doesn't slam, and it damn sure isn't poetry. It's more like prose that whimpers. They should call it whimpering prose!

>>8983427
whats the deal with islam poetry?

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>deal

(2/2)
Adaptability. English is the easiest language to use when it comes to adapting to changes, or incorporating new terms, be it contextually or as a major change to the entire language. One of the most famous is "nigger". Know where that came from? Say some guy has a very specific situation where he feels the need to invent or "coin" a term. Perfectly okay. He and his colleagues can then use that term clearly and fluidly in conversation with no misunderstandings. Let's see you try that shit in russian, you'd have to encode that shit into your ancient archaic goblin alphabet, then teach yourself how to pronounce it for 10 hours straight, then have your colleagues teach themselves to say it, and what it means. What a waste of time.
One of the most perfect examples of amazing adaptability of a spoken language is one single word - "fuck". I think you've seen the video or infographic (<--portmanteau) explaining the many numerous use cases for the word "fuck" and it's many appropriate contexts, even in spite of it not even being a homonym, it's actually just that good.

Understandability. This is when you understand the meaning and context of a word even if it's rittled with typos. Even if a sentence is missing many of its letters. I bt ths sntnc is stll ndrstndbl. Supporting example? хлeб. That means "bread" in russian. When pronounced, however, it sounds like it could literally mean "shit"

Perfect structure. How can any other language compete? The use of such a perfectly structured language, with its clever use of punctuation to get the point across so efficiently can simply not be matched.

A more humbling example of the superiority of the English language is the expansiveness of the tone and formality you are free to use when coming up with a sentence. You can be a rude cunt (ay grrl gimme sum pu$$) or sound proper and scholarly - "Salutations, my dear. Would you like to engage in sexual intercourse?" While saying the exact same thing. Only with English.

Let's talk about music and poetry. Singing is a pretty neat concept, but only if it's done correctly. If you're going to try to rhyme, the words that rhyme have to make sense. This is why all foreign translations of originally English songs that use rhymes all either sound like shit, or have been so butchered, they lost all meaning. Secondly, let's go back to my first point. It has to sound good. Listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ay5OOxRTTE It's literally durka durka. It sounds like it belongs in the fucking loo.

Imagery. English is the most powerful tool you can use when trying to convey emotion or invoke your reader's senses with imagery. Words that when put together in just the right way can actually bring you to the very setting using only your imagination.

One of the most important reasons - Popularity. Thanks to many of the reasons stated, English is and will be far into the future, the most popular, efficient, useful, pragmatic, and beautiful languages ever spoken.

I did not read any of this.

>>8983432
Neither.

Slippery fingers

>>8983402
It's uninteresting or I have greasy fingers

3 pgs of banana breakfast

>>8983316
bvoth

footnotes are obnoxious though.

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>sidenotes

Whats the point of a sunset, or pretty flowers, or colorful birds, id wish theyd all go away, theres no real reason for the sky to be blue for that matter, and too, the mountains should all be flattened for all I do not care, yes, smash all the bottles of perfume at once, better yet bury them at the bottom of a garbage dump and make it law to make no more, and how many clothing stores are there again, there ought be no more than 5 styles of shirt, and 5 styles of pants, enough already, 5 styles of shoe, a dictionary should lose its word mass by half a halved half of half a halved half of half, and then a bit much more, why cant the world just be one big checker board, but black and white

>>8983312
my diary desu happened senpai

>>8984897
i don't know why i just read this word vomit

Because I've been suffering with a bad case of flatulence.

>>8983285
The crazy guy and the blade of grass at the beginning was the best part, but overall a very enjoyable novel.

It's the only Gass I've read though. What else is good?

>>8983324
In the Heart of the Heart of the country
The Tunnel

Probably the worst part about having literature as your hobby is all the self-sucking that goes on by people like you, OP.

Where I'm from that first number is like 85%

To be honest, it's better that they don't read.. Let me share a little story:

The other day I visited an enormous bookshop in the middle of the main street for the first time in my life. I usually purchase books in antiquary second-hand shops (it's cheaper and the old translations are better). Anyways, I'm by no means a patrician, but I do indeed enjoy reading - the book I was after was Hesse's Siddhartha. As soon as I entered the store, I saw about 100 copies of it, and next to them the same amount of Steppenwolf. The obvious question is: why on Earth would Hesse be that popular? If there's around 200 copies of those 2 books in a huge, commercial bookshop, it obviously sells. It's hard for me to imagine that the average Joe can relate to Harry Haller, it's a book reserved for a particular mindset. There's no chance that the majority can relate to it in any meaningful way. But there they were, 100 copies of the Steppenwolf. Acknowledging the fact that it's something the masses buy and read felt insulting. Why do they read it when they can't understand it? Why do people read when they cannot understand? Sometimes I stalk certain (supposedly) well-read people on facebook and they post the most moronic things you can imagine. I ask, WHY do these people read? They obviously understand nothing. To conclude: idiots degrade literature by reading it, so it would be best if they didn't read anything at all.

You know it's coming

Best find the beta shelf

That's no bookstore... thats my house! OP don't you dare harm my wife or her son!!!!

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i would use "kaleidoscopic"

Reminds me of a night out on the town with the Squad. We roll tight, and are out for blood.

Swarmsharkstic skyes