/lit/ - Literature

>>16219331
>japanese
>F tier
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about

>>16219331
I'm tired of faggots not reading Mallarmé

>>16219331
In my experience the ability to articulate ones ideas well has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the speaker.
If you aren't interested in telling a story and just want to convey your thoughts, any language should be perfectly fine.

All languages are equally capable of expressing the same ideas. The only difference is how they do it, and the arbitrary tastes of the individual (many Africans consider French to be stale, limited, and clunky because of its orthography and lack of tonality; the Chinese find synthetic languages to be similarly simplistic'.

German and Spanish S Tier, French A tier, English B tier, I know nothing about the rest

>>16219507
This sounds good. Russian is probably close to S as well

>>16219520
>peasant language

>>16219532
>doesn’t know a single useful Russian word

>>16219331
>S tier-- Sanskrit, ancient Greek, German

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

>>16219331
>French D tier
no, no definitely not.

>>16219331
Portuguese S tier, rest F tier.

>>16219601
based

>>16219499
>the how doesn't change the what
Did you see that thread we just had about the joke that even Beckett couldn't translate into french?
How narrow is your notion of "idea"? What do you mean by it?

>>16219601
>>16219620
Favela monkeys detected

>>16219331
Dude how many people actually know how to speak the "major languages" you speak of

>>16219331
French is S tier

>>16219634
Yes Brazil is the only country where people speak Portuguese my fellow poster, no one will surpass the density of meaning and sonority portuguese has. It's objectively the best language for poetry, no wonders Brazilians can't learn it for shit.

>>16219331
igbo expresses the big bang.

S
German, Portuguese (BR), Spanish

A
Russian, French

B
English

German and br portuguese are above everything else.

>>16219331
> S tier: My native language
> A tier: Languages that I think are cool but I can't actually speak or read, but it would be cool if I did
> B tier: My second language
> F tier: Languages I tried to learn and failed at

Talking about languages you don't understand is just like talking about books you didn't read, aka this whole fucking board

S: English
A: German, French
B: Spanish, Russian, Italian
C: Portuguese

Well I don't know about the other languages, but definitely German is A tier. It can express a fucking lot.

>>16219590
>According to this graph
Information density is not the same thing as expression. If you only want information you can just talk like a caveman.

>>16219822
>World go boom!

>>16219413
>the weeb cries out in anguish

>>16219944
The based digits confirm the based post.

>>16219413
Especially with Korean ranked as B tier

>>16219809
ooh ooh aah ahh

>>16219944
/thread

>>16219944
All that needs to be said

>>16219499
Don't you think that difference can be judged?
>>16219944
Doesn't seem like you've got much to say here

>>16219331
Spanish and french are definitely not D tier

>>16219624
You can perfectly translate the joke to French, it would just lose the humor because of requiring footnotes or explanations ("In English, the word 'play' means..."). Is stating a feeling a substitute for the feeling? Not quite, but the idea that you can construct a language where you cannot express concepts is just flat out incorrect. That's not how languages work. That's not how the human brain works.

>>16220307
Sure they can, some languages are better at expressing certain things than others, or can do so more easily, but these are very niche concepts ("mower of grass" vs "lawn mower").

>>16219601
>>16219929
>>16219933
Why did you guys rated Portuguese so high? Portuguese is my native language and I don't really see anything special about that, the best thing about being Portuguese fluent is that you have a big advantage in learning Spanish, Italian and maybe French. Even a Portuguese native that never studied or had any contact with the Spanish language can have a casual conversation with a Spanish person.

Spanish and French are definitely one tier above Portuguese. Italian is my favorite language (the Country too), very interesting accent in my opinion but I don't really see the point of learning unless you're going to live in Italy or San Marino.

Do you guys really think a language with less than 15 nominal cases can express anything of value?

>>16219331
Do you speak all the languages you mentioned?

>>16219468
What are you
trying
to say?

>>16219558
cyka bliat

Latin
Russian
Norwegian
Italian
Dutch
Spanish
French

English