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Today, 01:37 AM

symphony replied to a thread Which is your most favorite and least favorite language? in General Chat

Oh dear, I pop a favorite something every few hours. As for languages, where do I start? I've been really obsessed with Gaelic sounds these days. I...

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Today, 01:22 AM

symphony started a thread Balalaika in Personal Poetry

Inspired from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qn06W-iBfkQ May be we'll tango in to the night Tin candles and thin...

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Yesterday, 01:22 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Give me the claim I'll give the reference book. For technology you can skip right ahead and check the works of Needham, particularly the Cambridge...

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Yesterday, 12:15 AM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

No, its translation is. The flavor of the original is different (coming from someone who has more than half of it memorized). We like to think of...

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05-23-2013, 08:44 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

as an answer to that, I would say Chinese literature is right now incredibly unattractive to Chinese students, and has always had a weird place in...

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05-23-2013, 12:50 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I would never propose the propaganda model of China as an entity with 5000 years of history that seems so preached by both educators and textbooks in...

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05-23-2013, 06:13 AM

JBI replied to a thread Musical instruments associated with famous characters in literature and history ? in General Literature

Gu Qin with most Chinese literati.

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05-22-2013, 07:52 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

What utter nonsense again. Papyrus and Paper are not the same thing, though they are similar in function, hence their shared etymology. As for...

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05-22-2013, 07:46 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

The secretive and restrictive policy is generally an outcropping of post-Mongolian Chinese policy. The Tang and much of the Song benefited greatly...

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05-22-2013, 09:34 AM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

China has been influential in India, most of South East Asia, and all of East Asia. It has also been influential in much of Central Asia, all of...

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05-21-2013, 08:21 AM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

English dominance internationally lasted about 200 years - dominance as in being markedly the best - and even then it was not always stable. The...

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05-21-2013, 03:56 AM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Are you being serious ? You seem to lack a concept of both culture and history.

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05-21-2013, 12:57 AM

symphony replied to a thread walking with dog and Biggus. in Personal Poetry

Love all of these but the first one just won it for me. I have to share that one on facebook (if you don't mind of course) with credits to Jerrybaldy...

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05-20-2013, 03:42 AM

JBI replied to a thread what is the easiest thing in life? in General Chat

Dying，Everyone can and will do it.

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05-20-2013, 01:23 AM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

The thing I don't get it this - some people think there is no such thing as an aesthetic criteria, the problem is they don't understand their own...

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05-19-2013, 02:57 AM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Yes and no. England is easily a contender on media, but you forget things, China has been isolated from American culture for 70 or so of those 100...

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05-18-2013, 03:12 AM

JBI replied to a thread Russian Literature and the Canon in General Literature

The American government since the Second World War has put a massive amount of cash into translation and understanding Japanese culture. First as...

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05-17-2013, 12:59 AM

symphony replied to a thread The Ultimate Contest in Personal Poetry

How is it that I ramble on and on and on and end up with poems that don't make sense to sensible people, and then I see these two-liners by you, and...

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05-16-2013, 11:27 PM

JBI replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

What a non-historical load of wish-wash. England's literature was no isolated. England is not Japan post Mongol invasion.

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05-16-2013, 06:56 AM

JBI replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

transitioned not broke. Art is constantly changing.

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05-16-2013, 03:41 AM

symphony started a thread The dreamers in Personal Poetry

They burned the witches for the day and tried to clean the air. But the air’s never clean where their breaths have been. The smoke of ideas just...

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05-15-2013, 09:12 AM

JBI replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

Frye's lectures according to my professors, who for the most part were trained by him directly or worked with him, generally were the same as his...

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05-15-2013, 12:51 AM

JBI replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

But to borrow an idea from Northrop Frye, easily one of the biggest and most important critics of English literature this last century, it is...

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05-13-2013, 01:17 AM

JBI replied to a thread Which COUNTRY has produced the greatest literature? in General Literature

Well mine wouldn't include Rand (assuming you mean Ayn Rand?). As for St. Lukes' comment on genre, well that is true, but what of other genres...

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05-10-2013, 12:48 AM

JBI replied to a thread Help me pls i dont understand this poem called the lake by ted hughes in Poems, Poets, and Poetry

If you use my reading I want you to acknowledge me in your presentation. Just say JBI, they will know who I am. Either way, this poem once you...

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05-10-2013, 12:45 AM

JBI replied to a thread Help me pls i dont understand this poem called the lake by ted hughes in Poems, Poets, and Poetry

If you use my reading I want you to acknowledge me in your presentation. Just say JBI, they will know who I am. Either way, this poem once you...

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05-09-2013, 09:45 AM

JBI replied to a thread Help me pls i dont understand this poem called the lake by ted hughes in Poems, Poets, and Poetry

The poet is the lake. Hence why it turns with him as it walks. The woman's reflection is a comment on personal relationships. The lake in a sense is...

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05-07-2013, 01:10 PM

JBI replied to a thread The 100 Greatest English Language Poets in Poems, Poets, and Poetry

Actually I find myself agreeing with Mortal. The canon is already too hard to enter - especially with the internationalization going on right now.The...

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05-04-2013, 01:14 AM

JBI replied to a thread York Notes/Spark Notes/Shmoop- What do you think? in General Literature

The analysis found in any of those notes are pitiful. They are not creative enough to get anyone writing a good paper, and merely will just allow...

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04-28-2013, 08:18 AM

JBI replied to a thread Is literature a resort for the disabled? in General Literature

I think we all in a sense are Tennyson's Ulysses - being wrecked or disabled is not necessary: Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams...

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