/lit/ - Literature

>>20613917
An even starker comparison is Korean and Japanese, given their geographic and cultural proximity. But logographic languages are also uniquely unsuited for movable-type printing, which has typically ballooned vocabularies. Japan only adopted it in the early 1800's, ~350 years after it's dissemination in Europe. They're also terrible from modern word-processors and keyboards. And they cant absorb foreign languages very readily either, unlike phonetic scripts.

I'm not ashamed to say that /lit/ got me into books and by virtue of that i can never hate this place despite all its flaws.

>>20351134
There’s nothing new in art. To create is to recreate in interesting combinations of what’s come before.
There’s more to tell, but enough secrets for you.

For me, it's 73:
>That time of year thou mayst in me behold
>When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
>Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
>Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
>In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
>As after sunset fadeth in the west,
>Which by and by black night doth take away,
>Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
>In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
>That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
>As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
>Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.
>This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
>To love that well which thou must leave ere long.