I’ll take Russian. It’s more depressing stuff.

viscera Posted:

Three years from now, you have to have completed a dissertation in a foreign language. bumuming English is your primary language, which would you prefer to spend three years studying, German or Russian? Your dissertation is for a graduate degree in literature, so going with German means studying Kafka, Mann, Goethe, and Brecht, among others. Russian would mean studying Nabokov, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Tolstoy…you get the idea. If you have no idea who any of those people are, just give me (hypothetical) advice on which language you’d rather learn.

Goethe is very outdated as much as Dostoevsky. Chekhov is very funny and ironic, I’d say he was a /b/tard if /b/ would exist in that century. Kafka is a bad reading, srsly — as much as Koelho, Bach, Murakami and other pseudo-philosophic literature for 40-yrs virgin girls. Mann is really good, but you don’t need to “study” it — just read it in English. Tolstoy is a 700-page ethics-filled Bible if you take just the War and Peace. Nabokov is a good 1-time reading, pretty sad, unless you’re a pervert or obsessed with OMG MOAAAR LOLIS. Funny thing, Nabokov is pushing his identity so hard into the novel, that it feel like threesome all the time.

Bottomline: I’d say Russian clbumic lit is a bit more interesting than German, but I’d rather study modern literature instead.

Always tolstoy.

German is extremely similar to English and thus easy to learn from what I’ve heard, so if I had to learn a language I’d probably pick that cause I’m lazy. However I think Russian would be better if you have the motivation to learn the damn thing.

I’d say russian cause I like Russia for some reason and I hate german ‘cause of shool :<

Russian, so I can finally understand what the hell they’re saying in Black Ops.

English is my primary language, but not my first. I actually attempted to learn German about 7 years ago, but dropped the clbum because it was going to bring my GPA down to the point where I’d lose my scholarship. I think I have more resolve these days, but just saying….easy, lolno.

viscera Posted:

English is my primary language, but not my first. I actually attempted to learn German about 7 years ago, but dropped the clbum because it was going to bring my GPA down to the point where I’d lose my scholarship. I think I have more resolve these days, but just saying….easy, lolno.

Why isn’t this **** totally Yeoman Rand? A completely useless character that adds nothing and everyone forgets her once she’s offscreen.

Why not Data? Nobody even got Data.

sdgrbbum09 Posted:

Lt. Barkley would also work.

Barkley became a pwuedogod. I’m not down with that.