Can you be considered an intellectual if you can only read one language?
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Can you be considered an intellectual if you can only read one language?
I thought I was having a stroke before I realized it's just البجعة السوداء written left to right in some alphabetic version of my language.
you should learn multiple languages because it's fun 🙂
photoshops default arabic font goes backwards and doesn't connect characters, which i think is responsible for a lot of these errors, i see them p frequently
lebanese/greek
Definitely not
Define intellectual
Yes. If you actually operate in more than one language when every language on earth can be translated in a moment's notice, you are a certified pseud
No. I always find it funny how in the stack/shelf threads you will always find books in English, with rare exceptions. Just goes to show that IQfy is full to the brim with pseuds
Depends on the language and what you're interested in.
Learning languages is a pseud trap. It's the epitome of learning the map instead of the territory. The time spent learning Spanish could have been spent learning actual knowledge like differential equations, organic chemistry, dynamic programming, meditation, philosophy, investing, the history of China, etc.
Again, it depends on what you're interested in in. Learning Chinese of some sort should very much improve your ability to study the history of China.
Sure if you're doing a PhD and really getting into the weeds on some obscure bureaucrat's mistress embezzling funds in the Tang dynasty. Most of the great works have been translated and LLMs are getting better all the time. Learning languages suffers from markedly diminishing returns in gaining useful knowledge, and is not at all a pre-requisite for being an "intellectual." Being multi-lingual would be valuable if you're Pashtun, or you want to be some kind of liason between foreign groups, but it's still just a means to an end. Once you learn a lingua franca like English you have access to the overwhelming majority of written content be it scientific, philosophical, literary, etc.
This is a literature board. Learning other languages is useful for exploring literature.
Exploring foreign literature in its native tongue is not a necessary condition for intellectualism, or even understanding their ideas.
Local minima on the Dunning-Kruger curve.
Belgians are no closer to being intellectual simply because they're forced to learn the languages of more dominant nations.
>learning dynamic programming
maybe you should spend more time on learning some basic terminology instead of posting on IQfy lmao
>learning actual knowledge like differential equations, organic chemistry, dynamic programming, meditation, philosophy, investing
You have to learn highly specialized languages to study all of these things and yes you'd better learn Chinese if you want to be a Chinese history scholar.
OP I hope that answers your question.
People that think learning other languages is hard should begin with languages closer to their mother tongue
If you know English, Scots and Dutch become easier. If you know Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are piss easy. If you know a Romance language, any other Romance language becomes easier (except perhaps for French)
Which country are you from?
No
The successive periods of British and American world hegemony have pretty much insured that virtually all of the elite writings of nearly every other language have been translated into English so you can be an intellectual and only know one language. You will never be cultured unless you know multiple languages though.
*ensured
no
Only if that language is English, the dread and envy of all other (and hence, lesser) languages.
This shitskinned boomer homosexual and BAP bap the gay israelite are obviously shilling themselves here, even if it isn't as hamfisted as gardner.
matters which language.
American problem.
Which type of Arab is Taleb?
stfu imbecile
Learning another languages is like having a foreigners penis in your mouth at all times
you cannot