/lit/ - Literature

>>18865330
Because you're probably just a self-hating American who thinks he can appear cultured and exotic by shitting on his own native langauge.

>>18131425
Me too anon

>>18058033
A practical reason? No. For an Anglophone other languages are mental tinker toys.

Anglos are such self-loathing cucks. You were lucky enough to be born into the current lingua franca, you have unmediated access to one of the most powerful languages to ever exist, home to some of history's greatest writers, and you shit all over it? You don't deserve English. Go watch TV and leave Shakespeare and Milton and Chaucer to me. Fucking cucks.

>>17839538
This. It's a Germanic language but with a huge proportion of its vocabulary having a Latinate origin and it's the only analytic Indo-European language. It's utterly unique. Also pic related.

Obligatory. Step it up Kraut, you're lagging behind

ESL cope

>>16655466
It's kinda sad, but you're right. That's the power of a lingua franca. No one would deny that power to Latin back in its prime, but people seem to seethe about English because "muh eternal Anglo".

>>16616450
>analytic > synthetic
Correct

>>16453232
>>16453726
Forgot this

This is for all those people saying German is "precise"

>>16264792
>English isn't on top of the throne

English is the greatest language to ever exist.

>>16219331
According to this graph:
English S tier
Mandarin A tier
Romance B
German C
Japanese D

Translating into English actually improves the work

>>16186009
Completely wrong lmao.
English is the most /lit/ langauge.

Cope

Where did this idea that English has "superfluous words" come from? It's literally the most efficient language in existence.

>>15998797
>>15998946
English is objectively the best language for philosophy.

Englishlets, when will they learn?

>>15970160
>What is the most literary language?
You're already speaking it

>>15916894
>je trouve que l'anglais est une langue dans la quelle on peut exprimer si peu.
FAUX

Don't make me post the graph again