You fuckers didn't tell me I needed to know French for this

Nabokov likes to show off.

You should have got The Annotated Lolita.

Also, German > French,

I'm grabbing it now actually

Oh wow the ebook version doesn't even link to the footnotes properly

I'll just go fuck myself then

ebooks are fucking trash. Every time I go to buy a book (I only buy hard copies) I look at the reviews and they always talk about how terrible the ebook is.

Nah most ebooks have okay formatting even plays. Being able to enjoy lit at 0 opportunity cost is great.

Of the 500 books I have, maybe 10 have fucked up formatting. And I paid for none of those. That's a pretty good statistic.

>paying for ebooks
cucks

>not being fluent in french

>And I paid for none of those.

you retard

How much French in Ada?

here I made it a modern classic

>written by gujira

Oh I'm sorry did the Germans magically all start speaking another language while I was gone? Did they all start learning a language that doesn't sound like a retarded pigfucker choking on horsecock while we were sleeping and spring it into action one day? How about a language that doesn't decide one day, "Hey, you know how sexing up every noun is stupid. Well, let's do this but make it even fucking stupider. And let's make the word for girl neuter because fuck people trying to speak this language."? Glad they finally decided that. Did they decide to fucking accept that more than 12 letters exist, so every word doesn't sound exactly the same, which is again like an elderly man choking to death on his own phlegm? Perhaps they adopted a language that didn't decide, "Wait, you know how fucking disgustingly gluttural our language sounds. And I mean absolutely fucking disgusting, like to the point it actually, literally, unironically drives you to disgust when heard? Yeah, well let's put a bunch of stupid dots over our letters to make it even worse, because fuck other people." Did they create a language that only sounds right when screeched by an autistic manlet in front of thousands of other autistic manlets to say something about the jews? Did they invent a language that didn't stop inventing words at 1200 B.C., so now whenever they want to name something they throw 50 fucking words from the fucking dinosaur times together just to name a fucking emu?

No, they didn't do any of those things. Fuck off you stupid little fucker. French is better than German in literally, literally every single way.

Never post on my board again you stupid little nazi-loving cuck.

>too untermensch to learn the language of das master race :^)
>stay mad, pleb

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woah

When I meet sections written in another language, I skip them.
If the writer intended for me to read them, he could write in English.

Pasta tier sperging you blundering autist

>he doesn't know french
Why are you here

Mädchen is neuter because chen is neuter.

German isnt especially guttural, by the way

>open Veeky Forums
>4 separate threads about Lolita

At the time I started reading Lolita, I had been studying French every day for about 11 months.

I understood about 75% of the French our friend Humbert Humbert kept using. The remaining quarter was just idiomatic expressions, in which case resulted in me having to look up the translations anyway.

A friend of mine whom is fluent in French, says that the inclusion of those phrases didn't add much anyway; I agree with her. They were probably just a way for Nabokov to flex his language skills.

If you care enough about missing the translations to the point of making a thread about it, you would have bought yourself an annotated version. Not worth it, really. They add just as much weight as does the French in Jane Eyre.

Ew wtf that cover is pretty goddamn offensive

If you think the untranslated passages in Lo are bad fucking brace yourself for Ada.

By the image you posted you probably don't comprehend English literature particularly well either so its kind of a moot point

Yeah, you're right.

I just read books so that I can name drop on Veeky Forums.

>e-reader

Why can't Amazon properly assign reviews to the book the assholes are reviewing? Everything is lumped together in a chaotic unhelpful mess. Didn't these niggers get into the game by selling books initially? How are they so bad at it?

Do it again Bomber Harris

i only read ebooks and haven't encountered many problems.

It's suggestive. Look how the stick is inside the lollipop

Suggestive of what?

fucking

Are you a virgin?

Is there any online resource to help with those?

>Lollipop

Ada's got a fuckton, as well as some Russian and maybe German iirc

fantastic post

the krauts are reeling after this brutality

They make the dirtiest covers for this book.

Does your ereader not have a translation option when you highlight?

if you don't know French already you're either a pleb or in primary school

>Not knowing french
>2020-3
C'est vraiment dégueulasse

lawdie
new pasta added to pasta folder

It's a fucking dick, I don't even saw the lollipop, maybe I've seen so much porn

All you guys talking about dicks and lollies
I just see red panties and a cameltoe

I'm learning it now. I should be able to read simple books and news within a month.

>A book written by a Russian
>NOT expecting French

What the fuck?

Le Petit Prince is one of the best starter (children's) books for a newcomer to French.

Thanks. I'll probably get it when I know more words, maybe when I'm around a thousand

A Russian writes a book in English about Americans, using French to explain Russian shit, all while it's the late 40's/early 50's.

Nabokov was /AN ABSOLUTE MADMAN/

I can't believe /HE ACTUALLY DID IT/