Reminder that there have been just five significant languages: Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Arabic, and Classical Chinese. If you claim to love literature and don't know all of them, your education is still incomplete. If you don't know any, you have barely read at all.
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I don't care. All the stuff I like is written in Romance languages and German. I couldn't care less what some chink said 900 years ago or whatever. But I'm learning Latin because it's amazing.
Good. Learn Greek next.
Latin is pretty cool Anon. I am doing Wheelock right now.
Seems that at any one time there are always thousands of people "doing Wheelock" and yet the number of people who know Latin worldwide remains in the low hundreds.
Roman stuff is only about 5% of surviving Latin, but how much Roman stuff hasn't been translated to English?
>anglice scripsit
All educated men should know English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Arabic and Sanskrit. No questions about it.
You forgot Hebrew.
You said Chinese twice
No, he said Arabic twice.
kek, how much or a butthurt Yuropoor do you have to be to mention French but not English.
American BTFOs all these languages. It is the first and only truly global hegemonic language, the language of science as science actually became science and not philosophy. There is no point learning any language accept American. American is what will be spoken when humanity colonizes the stars. All other languages will become vestigial, historical curiosities. English and England will only be recalled in that they somehow helped to form the original world empire on post-humans home world of "America" ("Earth," having long since been replaced in colloquial speech).
>kek, how much or a butthurt Yuropoor do you have to be to mention French but not English.
English is a version of French.
No it is not. The sister language of English is German. It is a Germanic language. English borrows from French, certainly, but it also borrows from a multitude of other languages because it has historically been an incredibly malleable language. Not to mention that the aforementioned multitude of other languages are generally far more heavily borrowed from than French.
>The sister language of English is German
No, English and German have 0 mutual intelligibility. German has good grammar with case, gender, and conjugation, English has shit analytic grammar.
>English borrows from French, certainly, but it also borrows from a multitude of other languages because it has historically been an incredibly malleable language
Because it has been raped by multiple different languages throughout history
>battle of hastings
French was the lingua franca of intellectuals, English is the lingua franca of pig farmers and other slaves.
And American is the language IS the language of the world today, the language of a people who can accomplish this on the other side of the world on short notice against the fourth largest military in the world.
By contrast, behold the power of the runner up just miles outside their border.
The language of the guatemalan refugee, the projects dweller, the san fran troony and other heckin oppressed groups.
Yes, American is a language on it's own, truly unique and very very "modern".
>Arabic
Persian.
>Persian
Nope, Persian is a massive meme. Even Persians themselves didn't write in Persian, they mostly wrote in Arabic. This is nothing in Persian except Sufi poetry and the Shahnameh. Anyone who knows anything about Arabic and Persian knows how much more Arabic has to offer, it dwarfs the Persian corpus by an order of magnitude.
>Arabic
The language the Koran was written in, really? Replace it with Hebrew maybe.
No Low German? Bullshit
IQfy has reached a new low. I think it’s over. People don’t even read anymore and instead larp about knowing sanskrit
संस्कृतं पठितव्यम्
>English, Irish, French, Italian, and German
You dropped this, OP. Now go to hell, because you don't even know your native tongue.
>I'm so cool I learn languages nobody speaks
troony behavior
Quod recte dicis. Pernotum enim feminas linguas quae dic**tur classicas non cognoscere (Gallicam aliasque vulgares malunt et sciunt); si quis denique linguarum classicarum scientiam more femineo ostentat, ille plane est masculus qui femina vult fieri.
I have read so many Latin posts on IQfy and not a single one has showed even the most rudimentary grasp of grammar/syntax. It's really depressing. You think you know enough Latin to write a Latin post, but your subject is in the accusative? Again, "masculus" as a substantive? Frick you man.
My bad for classicas, I noticed it too late, but masculus can be a substantive.
homie you just ran an english sentence through google translate or GPT, this shit is no longer impressive ove the internet sorry pal
>No Farsi
moron
I respect literature and I respect the ancients, that's why I refuse to plunder their linguistic sepulchers by doing some hobby studies of bygone tongues. Each language belongs to its own time, ours is English, or soon, Ebonics-Zoomeri. I read greek and latin works in translations done by academics whom I trust to do the heavy lifting, most of these dudes dedicated their lives to the craft and their work deserves recognition.
What, you think you can jerk your dick off on Memrise and understand homeric greek better than gayles? Read LLPSI and have greater insight than Golding? Frick off moron.
Do YOU know all five of these?
this is true enough for two of those, but what am I missing in greek, sanskrit and arabic?
They were the most influential, that is all.
>it's important because it's... le old!
Your 'education' is mostly dead weight. Have fun with your autistic quest of exhausting past literature, it's just an endless distraction pretty much like binge-watching netflix.