Thread 17911013

You don't read sources in translation, do you? You do know the original languages, right?

Imagine they got it wrong and this was just an ancient IQ test.

>>17911013 (OP)
No. Neither do you. LARP.

>>17911038
>Neither do you
Prove it

Of course I do, I'm not an idiot.

>>17911013 (OP)
Sure OP, just let me pull up my Linear B transla... oh wait.

>>17911025
It's actually ancient blackface instructions.

>>17911013 (OP)
>You don't read sources in translation, do you?
of course, this is why I exclusively read material from my own country and refuse to learn anything about other cultures. I know texts lose their meaning in translation so naturally they are better left unlearned and unread entirely.

>>17912365
What in the literal fuck? I can't even tell when people are joking on this piece of s*** board

>>17911013 (OP)
I get chatgpt to do it for me.

>>17912365
This is the most enlightened thing I think I've ever read and it's scaring the shit out of me

>>17911013 (OP)
yes, of course
this is why I learned, to absolute fluency, all modern western european languages
and classical latin
and modern and ancient greek (I also dabble in several tentative proto-greek reconstructions whenever I feel like indulging in a bit of linear b; for fun)
I am currently in the process of learning vedic, which should be easy enough, being indo european
I hope that in the next 50 years I will find the time to become fluent in ancient mesopotamian languages so I can finally get acquainted with the original version of the epic of gilgamesh
nothing gets lost in translation here. I am immune to propaganda
I am an 800 year old vampire and I am independently wealthy, btw

>>17911013 (OP)
There is no point in learning a dead language unless you make your money translating that dead language to living languages.

>>17911013 (OP)
why wouldn't I? the global lingua franca is English, so what's the point?

>>17912563
>There is no point in learning a dead language unless you make your money translating that dead language to living languages.
What about for fun?

>>17911013 (OP)
Some Latin I do but I can't read harder works.
I am not reading cuneiform and I never will because I do not have a decade to learn the most stupidly obtuse system of writing in the world with anything written in it.