Thread 24666678

Has /lit/ ever caused you to spill spaghetti in real life?
>teach philosophy to 10th graders at a Chesterton Academy
>doing portion on Aristotle as prep for Aquinas
>get to slaves by nature/slaves by convention section of Politics
>girl raises her hand, 'if Aristotle realized that many slaves should not be slaves why does he preserve slavery? This argument doesn't make sense blablabla"
>Tell her "well the fact is if you ask me Aristotle was severely autistic."
>no one says anything, cringe a bit but figure I got away with it
>two days later get called in the principal's office
>"Anon, did you disparage Aristotle for being autistic in one of your class sessions?"
>panicking, sweating in arm-pits interbuttocks and groin area
>"N-no, I said he was severely *artistic*. The student misheard me."
>he gives me a funny look and says "Oh, well, that's ok, uh, be more aware of how your words can be construed in this age of blablabla"

One time a bookstore clerk wouldn't give me a bag to carry free books I got outside the store unless I paid the five cent bag fee so I yelled "logic of capitalism" and left

>>24666678 (OP)
This never happened.

>>24666698
Yes it did you fucking artist.

>>24666699
jej

I have a job where I talk to young-ish girls (clerks) often and they're often reading. I always ask them about the book and if it's fantasy/porn (it always is), and I'm in a bad mood, I'll start yawning in the middle of them describing the retarded plot.

>>24666699
Trips of Satan confirm

>>24666678 (OP)
They didn't have philosophy in my high school so I have to take it in college starting tomorrow

>>24666678 (OP)
No, I don't tell people in real life that I read because we've gotten to a point where it just makes you sound like a pretentious twat, especially if you're reading pretentious twat authors like Adorno and Faulkner. They'll also always ask "so are you in school/going to grad school?" or some other embarrassing question. I learned years ago to keep the spaghetti in the pocket where it belongs.

Persia banned slavery and promoted religious tolerance. They arguably enjoyed a higher standard of living as well. History is written by the victors.

The Greco-Roman institution of slavery brought slavery and garish slave mansions to my beloved South, leading it to be burned to the ground and impoverished to this day.

>Start with the Greeks!

Start with the Koran.

>>24666748
This.
>"So anon what do you do for fun?"
>"I-I like to read."
>"Oh cool what books do you like?"
>"R-right now I'm working through Heidegger's early lectures."
>"Wow! Heidegger! You must be a deep thinker lol. Are you in school for that?"
Not worth it.

>>24666807
The Koran is like a retarded version of the Old Testament.

>>24666807
>Shows Safavid art
Retard

>>24666822
That's not Safavid art it's from a Tintin comic.

>>24666810
It's fine if you're not autistic about it. Just say something general and positive like, "Right now I'm reading some Heidegger, dorky af but I think he's really cool." And then she'll probably say "oh, cool!" and turn the conversation to something else. You're going into it like your reading is a shameful secret, that's cringe, the female mind will subconsciously associate your behavior with wanking.

>>24666831
>>24666810
You both seem to only talk to retarded girls lol

>>24666678 (OP)
I once tried to impress my Chinese boss and coworkers with my knowledge of Wang Huning only to find out they oppose communism

I once corrected a professor's pronunciation of dilettante. It comes from Italian, the e should be voiced. Then he pulled it up on Webster's and said I was "proven wrong, this time", and I said Webster's wasn't the best dictionary and he should look it up in the OED. He didn't, but if he had, he would have seen that I was right after all. I was actually seething about this for weeks because he was so smug about it but I was objectively correct. Similarly "forte" as in "that's my forte" should be pronounced like "fort" because it's from French, not Italian. I'm still kind of seething about it to this day that guy was a pseud in general.

>>24666860
Another one like this at work at the nursing home we have patients on "enteric" precautions for GI infections and I always pronounce it "EN-ter-ik" but the nurses say "en-TAY-rik" like pseuds. I've been corrected multiple times and I always tell them it's spelled with an epsilon in Greek, which it is. Fucking pseuds everywhere I swear.

>>24666860
Grammar autismos are my favorite; vernacular is regional and evolves over time.

>>24666869
lol the other day I said meta like 'May-tuh' instead of 'met-ah' and this sperg jumped down my neck about it people are so fucking silly about the dumbest shit

>>24666876
But this isn't about the organic evolution of the pronunciation of native words. I get it, no one says "uni-VAR-sity". These are loan words. Pronouncing dilettante like it's French is as retarded as pronouncing Jalapeno djalappeno.
>>24666890
I would have corrected the shit out of you pseud.

>>24666905
I say it like that because it's funny.

>>24666905
Correcting anyone's pronunciation is an insanely pseud thing to do unless the person is themselves posturing like an intellectual, which I wasn't - I was just talking about the established common practice of people these days.

He went on to break down exactly what M E T A stood for, which means you should say the words M E T A every time, no? eat shit you pseud

I always refer to unsolvable problems as insoluble problems. I pronounce poem as 'poim' because it's in the dictionary and it's a cheap kek.

>>24666914
Meta doesn't stand for anything it's a proposition in Ancient Greek. You're a pseud raised to the second power.

>>24666924
>it's a proposition
No it isn't.

>>24666678 (OP)
You are a genuine imbecile for giving that unfunny explanation to your student. No vocation and that girl has to pay the price of your ineptitude. Teach philosophy the correct way or go shut yourself inside your gooncave and explain philosophy to anons on /lit/.

>>24666678 (OP)
>be more aware of how your words can be construed in this age of
I hate all this woke shit is poisoning our culture. It used to be a teacher's job was to push students and challenge their ways of thinking. Now you have to coddle the beliefs they already have or risk getting fired.

>>24667405
And the best way to challenge your students is by dismissing great thinkers as autistic lol

>>24666807
>Persia banned slavery
When?

>>24666716
I'm amazed and jealous that young girls will openly admit to reading porn and start discussing it with you.

>>24667469
Presumably they're reading 'romance books' not actual porn. But romance books are actually porn.

>>24666716
Lol you retard.

>>24666748
>>24666810
I will actually lie and pretend to be into video games or sports rather than talk about what I'm reading. It's a dead-end conversation and it makes it look like you think you're smarter than the other person.

>>24667188
Based admonisher. OP Needs to take his job more seriously!

>>24666807
>Start with the Koran.
“Persia” existed long before The Koran and Islam.

>>24666860
b-b-but you were in the wrong!
>that's how it pronounced in the original language
I don't care

>>24666810
I only read fantasy novels and ultrasperg textbooks

>>24668303
Persia was also better off without Islam.

>>24668359
True, doing scaphism or punishments of burushnum on cunts like you is more patrician than simple beheading. Iran/Persia was never your friend, Jew slave falling for psyops.

>>24668387
Such a peaceful religion!

>>24668504
NTA but kill yourself faggot

>>24666810
>Heidegger
The nazi guy?

>>24666748
>I learned years ago to keep the spaghetti in the pocket where it belongs.
OP is asking for the stories of those lessons learned.

>>24666847
l'Mao

>>24666860
Webster's is for American English, the global lingua franca. If you're having conversations in American English Webster's is generally the better authority. If you're having conversations outside of American English or trying to bring non-American pronunciation into American English you get what you deserve.

By the way, Webster's lists both pronunciations, it just lists his first. Both pronunciations are correct but yours is less common and you were incorrect to say that his was incorrect.

>>24666748
>>24666810
>>24667555
This is why I find it funny how there is this mystique around reading as "the most virtuous hobby" from essentially everybody of any social and political persuasion, to the point where even the neckbeard who sits in his basement playing LoL all day will still tell you that reading is a better hobby than videogames and he only chooses the latter through weakness of will
The reality is that (serious) reading is among the most antisocial hobbies you can possibly have. The LoL addict at least has an instant conversation topic and bedrock for a friendship if he runs into some other LoL fan in the wild, but I am never going to gain a friend through a mutual love of Irigaray's writings on Nietzsche and anyone who would talk about that in the first place is probably insufferable

>>24666748
>>24666810
>Are you in school for that?
>They'll also always ask "so are you in school/going to grad school?" or some other embarrassing question.
Why are you embarrassed about the question? It's reasonable for them to ask given the contexts in which they've seen those books previously. I suspect you are embarrassed with yourself, not your reading habits. You should fix that.

>>24669818
>I am never going to gain a friend through a mutual love of Irigaray
Nor should you. Have you tried not being a feminist?

>>24666728
that’s quads and dubs you fucking retard

>>24666860
no one says it like that in the English-speaking world except (you), you massive pedante

>>24666810
I don't get it at all. So what? Just bring up something from Heidegger you found interesting or otherwise could share, see if she responds to that, and if not just close the topic and ask her something instead. That's what I do and they usually lean into it just fine, and I guarantee you I'm much more anxious and awkward and fumbling than anyone else here. I guess I'm just a sperg and not self-aware enough to understand the humiliating part, but what's the problem here?

>>24666860
first year? i made a fool of myself with pedantic remarks and irrelevant, speculative questions, too

>>24666847
They were Chinese immigrants, anon, what did you expect?

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>>24664746
Oops.

>>24666745
I hope the teach you about non sequiturs.