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 No.1640[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

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 No.19679

I wish there was a place online where you can have quality discussions on serious topics but I can't find anywhere. College and academic mailing lists used to be okay even if they were full of snobs and elitists and most are dead now. Everywhere its just noise and rage and more noise. 4chan /lit/, leftypol /edu/ and most subreddits are just unusable and filled with insane unhinged people.

>>19203
You won't know until you try it.



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 No.19705[Reply]

What are some underrated environments/locations you like?

I've always been fascinated with the desert. There's something haunting and mystical about them, especially during the evening/night.


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 No.2058[Reply]

Hello!

I've been meaning to do a language thread, but I thought it would be more interesting if it includes comfy-posting about different parts of the world.
Feel free to share the -best- resources to learn your language or others that you may be aware of!

I know its hard to not get political but please try to keep it civil, or at most do some friendly banter.

I'm from a country that used to belong to the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, my main language is Español, and some tidbits of guaraní/portuguese.

However I'm interested in japanese[0] and russian, and of course, I would like to improve my english.


[0]- https://djtguide.neocities.org/

Have fun.
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 No.19607

I started on my Sanskrit learning journey not long ago. I am happy to say it's going fine, as far as fine can go with just a few days of study. I always wanted to learn Sanskrit, not out of a particular interest in Indian culture and literature (though I plan to read the Mahabharata), but because, generally, I am a sucker for ancient languages. When I'm done with the Sanskrit book, I'll probably read one for Ancient Greek.
I can't help but feel I'm perhaps putting too much on my plate, being primarily interested in chinese culture and being, for the last few years, learning Classical Chinese. The effort I've been putting on Sanskrit prompts me to put at least an equal amount of effort on CC, especially now that I've been reading yijing (aka I Ching) commentaries.
Oh, but it doesn't end there! I am also actively learning Russian these days. I also put some effort in learning Russian, but by now I'm stretching myself a bit too thin, especially with time, as I try to squeeze at least some time for Russian in my daily study.
All this comes with no small effort at acculturation with the respective cultures of these languages, which increases the amount of material to read. I've been trying to read history and fiction, mostly from China and Russia, and some meta about the Mahabharata (did I mention I plan to read it?), which taken all together amounts to quite a bit of overload on my brain.
Considering I have other stuff to do in my day, I don't want to neglect it by focusing too much on my language studies, nor to neglect one for the sake of the other. I am happy to be able to learn Sanskrit and Classical Chinese, I wouldn't want to put them aside, but I don't want to end up burning myself out.
Maybe I will just cut back a bit on the part of reading history and fiction, which is, as usually happens to me, a product of a bit of an overly eager intellectual ambition.

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>>19607
What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese? I really want to learn it. I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious. There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.

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>>19610
>What resources do you recommend for Classical Chinese?
My favourite book is Kai Vogelsang's 'Introduction to Classical Chinese', that, along with Paul Rouzer's 'A New Practical Primer' should be sufficient.
There are others, though, I also like Archie Barnes' 'Du's handbook of Classical Chinese Grammar' and 'Chinese Through Poetry'.
For a first look into it, Van der Norden's 'Classical Chinese for Everyone' is a very brief book giving a first taste for the language, you should start by reading that one.
Obviously ctext.org for classical texts and an on-line dictionary.
> I love ancient and classical languages too but they soak up a lot of time and there pay off isn't obvious.
They do. For me the pleasure lies in the process itself. However little additional understanding I can get from even a brief brush with a language makes the reading of ancient texts, even in translation, many times more enjoyable. There are usually very many terms involved which have no easy translation, and meeting the language halfway adds a lot to the experience.
I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid. I enjoy the challenge of making sense of the original even if I depend on the translation. There is, for example, Sargeant Withrop's Bhagavad-Gita, which comes with thorough glosses for each word, showing all the grammatical information (such as verb roots, conjugation, case, number, etc).
>There are too many great languages and books to learn and so little time.
Ikr, hence I am also learning Russian, so maybe I can read Tolstoi, Chekhov, Dostoievsky, Akhmatova, Lermontov, Pushkin…

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>>19612
Btw for anyone interested in the New Testament, here is a site with the original Greek, with dictionary and all!
https://biblewebapp.com/reader/

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>>19612
Thanks a bunch Sushi! I'm gonna start on Classical Chinese in a few months. Barnes Poetry book is great even if its a bit technical. I'm going to see if there are any Chinese culture/language clubs around my local area who can help me out too. I really want to dig into classical Chinese philosophy and religion with the original literature.

>I don't think I would ever reach the point of being able to 'just read' the Mahabharata in the original without any aid

I get the feeling that its easy to hit a plateau and burn out or never develop further because you have vastly fewer opportunities to speak in or use a 'dead' literary language.



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 No.16521[Reply]

Where have you been to, sushi? Show us some pics!
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This country is pretty good for a parody of the Slavic culture. The panorama is from Veliki Stol, pronounced [vɜlɪkə stəʊ].

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>>19038
Fine. I hate phones. It won't even upload the right picture and uploads the same one twice instead.

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Memoirs from China

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>>19701
cute foxes

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>>19701
Honestly I think I've seen too many bad things about china to considering an interesting place as a tourist



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 No.12776[Reply]

Hey, let's have a Fall thread!
Do you like Autumn? Is there anything you like to do this time of year?

Autumn is my favourite season but it always feels like you can blink and miss the whole thing if you're not careful.
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 No.19662

Autumn is here! Finally! Begone, the insanity of summer! But autumn is also the season of incurable sad thoughts for me…

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>>19662
Why would you be sad during autumn? It's sweater season!

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unquestionably…

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…autumn

 No.19699

It's still a bit hot around here and the leaves have yet to change, but I'm not giving up hope! I don't particularly do anything special for autumn, though. My cooking doesn't change, I don't really go anywhere, but honestly, it's okay. I take it a month at a time. During autumn, the temperature becomes more temperate: about 70F/21C. The trees do change a bit, but it's never really golden where I live. In my neighborhood, the trees are mostly green, but if you go to a wildlife preserve or something similar, the leaves are all on the ground and brown. So really, I think it looks pretty ugly. Still, the mountains near me are beautiful with their orange and yellow leaves. It's downright picturesque.



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 No.14877[Reply]

I have hopes for a good future in the horizon, what about you?
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My hatred and rage. I must defeat mine enemies.

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my bf keeps me going. he is a very special person i really love dearly, and has given me hope that i never had before. he truly is the only person that truly loved me back genuinely. if i never met him and never got close with him, i probably would have been way too lost to a point where everything would be forever miserable.

getting really close with my bf is something i never expected to happen, given the kind of recluse i was overall socially for my whole life, and how ill-adjusted i've always been socially, both irl and online. i'm still a recluse to this day and life still has been throwing tons of shit at me, but i still have my partner i really love dearly.

i wish i can be with him again soon, forever at that.

 No.19690

Dwarf Fortress. I just HAVE to play it when it's nearly finished. It'll never be finished, I'm sure, but I'm so excited about some features like adventurer mode's faction system where you can lay claim to certain places. I'm especially psyched about starting a vampire cult or becoming a wizard's apprentice. That's long away, though. Probably 10-20 years, I'm sure. I'm not talking about the base feature, but an actual fleshed out system. Still, when the wizard apprentice thing does come out, I'm sure it'll be very fun to experience. It won't be long. Probably five years.

 No.19694

Books. Study. Scholarship.

 No.19698

At this point, it's just funny. I'm lonely and bored but so what? Doesn't mean I have to end it, or that I need to have some expectations for the future, I can just be as I am and not think about it too much. This whole existence thing is funny and absurd, no need to sweat it too much.



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 No.4837[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

I recently saw this video
https://youtu.be/eh8U6SLvNgs

I realized that I never learned how to play chess. Nobody in my family plays it anymore so I never bothered to learn. But after reading so many amazing stories about this game I really felt urge to learn it and get decent at it.
Couple of days ago I started playing regularly on lichess; I'm still really bad but it has been lots of fun so far.

Do you have any interesting stories about chess? Any tips for beginner like me?
Lets have a thread about comfiest game ever.
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White to play
Anastasia Golovkina vs Alexey Vasilyev
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White to play
E Schiendorfer vs S S Ilic
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 No.3302[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

This thread isn't meant to be all about me, even if my writing makes it seem like it, it can be anything to do with friends.

Do you have any online friends sushi? How did you get them? What do you like to do with them?

I have a problem making online friends, because all the sites I go on are sushi rollymous. I have tried a few forums, but I can never commit to them, and they're usually pretty bad anyway. I dont have time for IRC, and I always make a big old booby of myself in live conversation. Do you think it's possible for me to make online friends, or should I stick to being by myself for the moment?
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I (virtually) meet up with food blooggers

 No.15626

>>15054
The perfect anime girlfriend would be someone who takes showers.

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All communication is online now.

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Join a discord?
I don't know…

 No.19687

I've had the same online friend group for 10+ years now with new people very occasionally joining by happenstance. I like them but I'm basically the only one who tries to get group activities going and it feels like pulling teeth most the time so I'd like to find another group that does stuff together (also just more variety in socialization would be nice in general). Don't really know how to find a new group though since I guess I'm looking for a general hangout rather than somewhere dedicated to X game.

I mostly just talk in our server, there's only one guy I talk to individually outside of that, mostly about seasonal anime. I'm so used to the group chat setting I don't really know how to start individual conversations anymore.



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 No.14167[Reply]

Today's sunset was very pretty. The fiery oranges melt into the milky smooth white which leads the way for the light blue cheering up lonely wanderers in the darkness ahead.

These summer nights outside always give me calm yet uncomfy thoughts about me and my purpose in this world. Since they are uncomfy I shall not talk about them so use your imagination! Do you have any comfy memories and thoughts that summer nights bring out for you instead?

There are some dreams that my mind lunges for but are too out of reach for reality. One of them is to just get a vacation from living, get somewhere where nobody knows me and just camp there in a tent. Read a bunch of books, cook small meals and aimlessly wander in the small half-empty villages and towns at night. Are there any comfy dreams you are actively trying to turn into reality?

Since you are here, this is a public reminder for members of the Cult Of Good Sleep to check their clocks, maybe it's YOUR time to join with the dark!


Good night sushirolls.

PS: photo related but not fresh
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Zzzzz…..
I must sleep and rest well.

 No.17222

To sleep, perchance to dream

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Dream of tanks

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Dream a little dream for me..

 No.19686

Good night. Always remember that there are people that love you. Even if you don't believe them.



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 No.18790[Reply]

What are you doing this summer?
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 No.19521

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just started skrewl…

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Right now (summer) I'm just spending this summery afternoon lurking the board looking for fun stuff to reply to because it's SUMMER.

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not a big fan of summer! excited for what's about to come (autumn). and in the meantime i am posting on this wonderful site! i feel closer to you guys with each passing day!

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With the summer now officially over and having been absolutely useless for the better part of it, I have now entered the PRE-FINAL stages of my forty-step plan to SAVE ANIME.

 No.19685

>>19521
Java and Bawls man. Reminds me of those days of hanging out at Fry's looking at computer parts I couldn't afford and reading the programming magazines.

Like tears in rain…



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