/lit/ - Literature

>>19241683
Typical Angloid.

>>19117139
Is this some kind of anglo cope?

>>19089134
>however, I was told once that most Romans never spoke the kind of Latin that is taught in school today
That's true, but by most Romans those who say that mean the slum-dwelling plebs who didn't really have a proper command of Latin and its grammar and spoke in a vulgar, simplified form. Particularly as the empire grew out of Italy and Rome, the gap widened between the high Latin of literature (i.e. the proper Latin of Cicero, Caesar, Seneca, Virgil, Ovid et alii) and the vulgar, simplified Latin of the provincial plebs, soldiers, the uneducated and the like.

It's essentially the same process that happens to any language, but affected Latin to a greater extent because it's based more on grammatical technicality than most languages and because it was exported to some of the most filthy, disgusting, mud-hut dwelling savages that the annals of history have ever known.

>>19048211
Sorry, I fucked it up.

>>18962765
The UK's Communication Act of 2003 defines "Sending a malicious communication using social media" or anything that is "intended to alarm or distress somebody" as a criminal offence. The reality is that freedom of speech is not enforced by law in the UK, in so far that officials employ mental gymnastics to create some sort of distinction that 'free speech does not include hate speech'.

So yes, a message like 'kys' or anything arbitrarily deemed to be 'psychologically distressing' can result in a fine or you losing your freedom in the UK. This of course includes a man who trained his dog to imitate the Hitler salute when you said 'sieg heil' as well as about 11 or 12 Norf fc types who tweeted racist things about the black England players who missed their penalties and have subsequently been arrested

>>18923585
Could anyone put forward some good Greek works for beginners to work through? Would any of the Theogony of Hesiod, the Homeric hymns, or Aeschylus/Sophocles/Euripides be appropriate for someone to work through who is relatively inexperienced? Would be optimal to read the fine works whilst also having a didactic effect with the Greek I think

>>17304600

>>17263239
>>17263239

why is it so bad?