/lit/ - Literature

What came first "cum" or "cumming"? Obviously the reason why cumming means orgasm now is because it's the act of producing cum. At the same time semen is called cum because it's what produced during cumming. Which came first though? This terminology is kinda a chicken and egg scenario.

>>21871425
What's the difference between math, arithmetic, algebra, and calculus?

Currently I work as a translator of Japanese pornographic magazines (read: hentai). At my speed of translating, I make about as much money per hour as a convenience store clerk in the developed world (although I have been taking advantage of this by living in developing countries where my money goes much further). What are some more monetarily rewarding professions for someone who can read Japanese and has a background in the humanities?

Why do Catholics (and Christians in general really) make such a big deal out of homosexual sodomy when heterosexual sodomy, masturbation and adultery are also mortal sins and equally bad according to their catechism? It seems silly to me that Christians can on the one hand look down on people who practice homosexual sex sanctimoniously as if they suffer from some terrible mental illness while at the same time commit these other mortal sins which are really just equally as bad and will also doom them to eternal hellfire.

>>19745291
wat word

>>>/his/ but also the single general trait of american culture is that it operates precisely with a marked lack of one as cultures's otherwise construed elsewhere. to not do them too big a disservice this lets them play a lot with cultural tropes. it'd be unfair to say the american cultural paradigm hasn't had a worldwide influence.
i think it's on account of the same phenomenon that the japanese have a greater appreciation for european culture, even when they misappropriate it from time to time. they themselves have a rich mythology through the shinto pantheon, as well as the japanese zen and buddhist traditions to draw on. i suspect they more readily apprehend the value of stories retold rather than reinvented and politicized.

If the price of sin is death, how come Adam and Eve get sentenced to die for being disobedient after eating the fruit, but the Devil doesn't? Shouldn't he also have instantly turned into a mortal? Shouldn't he as a matter of fact have instantly been doomed to die the moment he first started the war in Heaven, long before Adam and Eve were even created? The reason we have to be purified before theosis is supposedly because God's nature is only limited by being so Holy and Good that anything sinful that comes close to Him is instantly destroyed - then how come the Satan can actually still talk to God, as shown in the book of Jonah?

>>17630985
I'm not sure, but I felt like it was a book that make the compelling case for the opposite.
It seems to glorify Dean and this Beat generation thing, but it just seems he's not living that much of a happy life.
Didn't the real life inspiration for the character kill himself or something?
Does this make sense?

>>17438368
I thought Moors were from Africa, no?
I don't really know much about this

>>17357924
Bizzare. If life is not a test, then what is it?

>>16893042
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>>16724105
>Joe Biden is smart, charismatic

What's the difference between "short stories" and "tales"'? Are they the same thing or is there a nuance there?

How do I learn ancient Greek? Everything I've found so far has had people trashing the pronunciation - I just want to read the classics and don't particularly care to become conversant, so maybe it doesn't matter, but I don't want to sink a whole bunch of time into it just to find I've been doing it wrong the whole time.

Is it best to go with Erasmian, Ecclesiastical, or modern Greek to start?

Is it possible to buy cheap books ($1-2 each) online? Shipping costs ALWAYS ruins it. Are there any websites that sell in bulk and cut a deal on shipping?

Did you know that in order be truly grammatically correct while speaking English, you're supposed to put quotation marks (these-->") around every noun in a sentence?

I cant come to a conclusion, /lit/.

Is literary irony considered good when it is intelligible to the masses, present for anyone suffering under the human condition to enjoy? Or perhaps when it is intelligible only to a select few, filled with subtleties and nuances only the educated could understand?

Why do some people think philosophy is useless? Are they just too stupid to understand it?

>>12426217
>I read 2 books for the first time in my life without being forced to (the World According to Garp, Heart of Darkness and 1984)

What's a book that will help me get a gf?

>>12265216
>only fags make drama
>OP tries to make drama

...

>buy ebooks

>>11818681
how are capitalism and schizophrenia related to this?

>>11621735
what does he actually like tho