Do you believe that German is better than English for artistic literary expression? As of right now...

Do you believe that German is better than English for artistic literary expression? As of right now, I am under the impression that English is more colorful, but German has richer poetry.

Anything is better than English desu

Swahili?

English is for porn actresses. German is for mathematicians

the english language can incorporate any word from any language, i can weave in french german or latin terms mid sentence and i will be understood. there is no better language for communication and philosophy.

German is pretty nasty and blocky, a horrible choice for fiction, English is superior at everything beyond manuals, and arguably philosophy.

The sentence structure in German seems better for philosophy though, not quite sure whether a more flexible vocabulary can balance that out.

>i can weave in french german or latin terms mid sentence
You can do it in any language if you're pretentious enough.
>and i will be understood
No.

>the english language can incorporate any word from any language
t. monolingual *nglo
Literally every language can do this.

>there is no better language for communication
Because everyone knows it. That has nothing to do with the actual qualities of a language.
>and philosophy.
That's why there's so many great english philosophers...

Sad!

>No.
are you a brainlet

all philosophers are english phils today, we should just translate everything into english and burn every last original work, forcing everyone to jointly solve philosophy together

>he can't even be convincingly contrarian
Sad. Now go be butthurt somewhere else, anglotard.

What else do you think, German is efficient? Italian passionate? Russian...cold?

Biggest teenage pseud topic ever, please grow up.

>better for artistic literary expression
That's a pointlessly vague question. Phonetically German is less pleasant, particularly modern non-allemanic dialects with glottal R. Semantically it's much more precise than English, though this is also true of most other languages due to English being an analytic mishmash that completely shed nearly all sensible agglutination mechanisms. This makes it fairly obvious that English is naturally less suitable for subjects requiring high level of implicit semantical coherence, but couldn't possibly tell us anything about such subjective metric as "artistic expression". In the end as any linguist would tell you no language is better or worse overall than others.

Well, no, I read a translated copy of Faust awhile back, and the translator's argument was as I typed. Also, I see the argument on here as well. This is a very subjective topic- keep I'm mind that I'm asking a question, not stating a fact.

Thanks, I'm not a linguist or a phiologist, so that helps.

Depends entirely on the scope of the text.

No. But I believe that German is better than English for autistic literary expression.

i think english is fine, but i wish it retained its germanic compounding abilities

whaleway, gleebeam, farland, firgenstream, folkland, goldwin, heavenriche, fornsaying,

think about all the cool shit you could say

>In the end as any linguist would tell you no language is better or worse overall than others.
i disagree with this insofar as it implies that the full range of expression exists in every language
i think for most languages that have had a 'high' culture, its valid. for others...idk if mongolian or such ever had the need to evolve expressions beyond that of a nomadic lifestyle(i could be wrong, but im just trying to think of an example)

>Phonetically German is less pleasant, particularly modern non-allemanic dialects with glottal R
now this i think is subjective, depends on how you want the language to sound. i enjoy the gutturality of german, idk but i appreciate the 'masculine' sound of these languages compared to languages like spanish or italian, with the long lilting vowels

>you will never be enough of a genius to analyze the many different situations where one language better expresses a feeling, thought or idea than another, and create the ultimate poem which flows from language to language with distinct meaning and purpose, formally creating a new way of analyzing literature

a concept

>Phonetically German is less pleasant
Gotta disagree. I don't get the meme that German sounds unpleasant. To me its one of the most pleasant, up there with Italian and Spanish.

French, on the other hand.. Is ugly af, too nasal. Portuguese and dutch are ugly too.

i feel like thats a nice idea, but given that words have acquired sentiment and meaning within languages due to history, literature and such, it wouldn't really be as powerful as you hope.

If I said: Zhousheng bingbong Kingly rooster Deutsches Reich apoteosis, would any of the nonenglish words really mean anything to you?

no, but thats because i'm a monolingual brainlet

it would be an ingenious creation for other supremely ascended big brain geniuses

e.g. a totally useless and masturbatory piece of art that helps nobody