What non-English language has the best and most original thinking taking place with it?
Is it Hebrew or Chinese or something else?
Probably German or French, still. But English is probably in first place by a larger margin than 40 or 50 years ago.
I disagree that Chinese is one of the best, it's actually pretty bad because its structure lends itself to a lot of misunderstandings.
Anyone who speaks a little mandarin thinks right away "hey, won't this structure cause people to be correcting themselves to others all the fucking time?".
And you know what? It does.
>>336753
>Anyone who speaks a little mandarin
> a little mandarin
Well not being fluent, there's your problem. Git gud gweilo
>>336730
Italian
how did I not have this picture yet, thanks anon
>>336730
French, Spanish and possibly Russian by a wide margin
>>336730
Probably the romance languages like italian, spanish or french.
>>336730
>has the best and most original thinking
What the fuck does this even mean?
>>337289
/thread
You mean the hardest to learn? Then it would require the "most thinking". Probably Mandarin or Hebrew because it is very different than English or French.
>>337289
Are there any intellectual world capitals that aren't in Anglo-Ameriland?
>>336753
>Anyone who speaks a little mandarin thinks right away "hey, won't this structure cause people to be correcting themselves to others all the fucking time?".
Just think about this. Do you think that people, who are inherently lazy and try to find the easiest way to express an idea, would not come up with a relatively efficient way to express ideas among themselves if given enough time?
Hunagarian is a bitch unless you happen to be Hungarian, in which case Hungarian is more intuitive than any other language.
>>336953
best pits in history
>>336730
Ancient Greek.
>ἀεὶ ὁ θεὸς ὁ μέγας γεωμετρεῖ τὸ σύμπαν
>Always the great God brings geometry to the universe.
>ἀεὶ(3 letters) ὁ(1) θεὸς(4) ὁ(1) μέγας(5) γεωμετρεῖ(9) τὸ(2) σύμπαν(6)
>3.1415926
>yfw
>>336730
Arabic
>>336730
>Sappir-Whorf hypothesis
Fuck off to /x/ with this bullshit.
>>336738
>But English is probably in first place by a larger margin than 40 or 50 years ago.
>no Hegel
>no Heidegger
>no Kant
>no Feuerbach
>no Fichte
>no Schelling
>no Husserl
I'm not German, however German thinkers are the best by far with the Greeks and some Latin and French. Far in front of English imo
(but i'm not talking about litterature there)
>>337563
this isn't the year 830
>>336730
French.
>>336730
>Is it Hebrew
>be a language that's not commonly spoken or used in anything except copying from torah to torah for like 2000 years
>be an important language
It's not Hebrew. Did you mean German?
>>337558
this
Probably a highly inflective language is the best, like Latin or Greek. English is a slave to syntax.
>>338885
>One of the most spoken languages in the world
>Influenced many other languages including some Romance languages
>>336730
Russian. It's close enough to critique western and eastern thought, and having experiential knowledge of both. China is too remote from western thought, and the west visa versa, for a fruitful confluence of ideas.
>>336730
What languages are worth anything?
There's English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, and Japanese, and that's about it, right?
>>337558
Are you a classics major
>>340325
Then the Khan came
>>337563
This desu senpai
>>338885
>>340466
You need to go outside more often
Pic related, modern day Europe.
>>340401
>Italian
>>341296
What's wrong with Italian?
>>341311
No, I agree with him, I shouldn't have included it. It's only good for speaking with Italians and churchmen, and any churchman worth his salt knows Latin.
>>341340
So you added Greek which has less speakers than Italian?
>>341366
Ancient Greek, be all up with my homies Euclid and Heraclitus.
>>340531
>sign in english
>sign in english
>sign in english
>sign in english
>>341528
Thought I was the only one.
>>341528
Aren't a lot of these people a group of actors consistently hired by news corps to beef up these things?
>>341528
How many of these pics have been taken outside the UK?
>>340401
Actual relevant languages
English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese.
>>343136
You forgot Portuguese.
>>340328
This
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_soul
"It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world."
>>343136
Remove German and put cantonese
>>336953
Yeah, she's lovely
>>343136
>Japanese
No, you fucking weeaboo. Japanese is an isolated language and is only spoken on one dinky island. Literally the only reason they're relevant is because they're America's bitch.
Go with Chinese if you want runes.
>>336730
Français, Deutsch, Farsi/Persian, Nippon Russian... that's about it I guess.
Stupid question though, but in regards to "strong philosophical, literate and other art output, those are among the top
>>336730
I would say German, simply considering the sheer amount of fairytale and capital-r Romantic literature they produced. That kind of art takes mental flexibility.
Russian too for a lot of the same reasons, though pre-Communist Russian and Imperial era Russian are actually different.
>>336730
East Frisian.
What are you asking exactly
the language with which most philosophers expressed their thoughts?
>>336730
In old English people spoke and wrote in metaaphids. ocean = whale road.
>>345582
I think he's referring to sentence structure and grammar and the like.
>>336730
obviously esperanto
>>345585
I'm pretty sure that's just in poetry, and a lot of other old germanic languages did it in theirs too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenning
it's interesting though. Old English poetry and prose is pretty neat in general.
sanskrit is where it's at
>>345682
no but for real kennings are pretty cool.
take this one for example
Ða wæs heofonweardes gast ofer holm boren.
The heavenward's ghost is borne over the waters
heofonweard = heaven gaurdian (ward) = god
sucks that stuff like this just sounds awkward in modern english.
>>345682
>The practice of forming kennings has traditionally been seen as a common Germanic inheritance, but this has been disputed since, among the early Germanic languages, their use is largely restricted to Old Norse and Old English poetry.[11][23] A possible early kenning for "gold" (walha-kurna "Roman/Gallic grain") is attested in the Ancient Nordic runic inscription on the Tjurkö (I)-C bracteate.[24][25] Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse
intradesting
>>336730
French
>>337558
Holy shit senpai
Arabic.
The only truly superior language. Works better than English in programming languages as well.
>>340531
Islamo-European revival when?
>>345782
>Nietzsche as mac 10/10
>Heidegger as frank 10/10
>De Beauvoir as Dee 6/10
>Camus? as Dennis ?
>>346145
10 chalab
20 ahmed
30 jam-halam djihad
40 goto djihad
>>336763
kek
>>346260
cant see logic in your comment
>>346328
>whatisbasic.nointernetinsandcountry
>>336730
In my opinion, I'd think it to be German and Italian in the west, Sanskrit + whatever other Indian languages in the east, and inbetween stand the Russians and Persians.
>>346476
based indo-european
