Why Is Spanish So Damn Insignificant?

[Wiglaf]

LTEC, as Spanish is nothing more than a poorly done useless knock-off of Latin, I'm no real stranger to it.

Guynemer, where are you from anyway? And don't give me that "Ann Arbor" crap.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Guynemer, where are you from anyway? And don't give me that "Ann Arbor" crap.

Where am I from? Existentally speaking, who can say? Where are any of us from? Stardust? The collective subconscious? The dreams of a newborn deity? The wombs of our mothers? The genetic dictates of billions of years of evolution? Such a fascinating question you've asked, Wiggums.

Anyway, the answer is Ann Arbor.

Now, I've answered your question. Kindly answer mine. Whose DL are you?

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
LTEC, as Spanish is nothing more than a poorly done useless knock-off of Latin, I'm no real stranger to it.

Could you enlighten me as to the best translation of El Pollo Diabolo then please?

[Dr. Nick]

The language has had no great works of literature

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha has to account for something... Federico Garcia Lorca, Miguel de Unamuno, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra... these are NOT renown Spanish writers. Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez did NOT create a whole new school of writing that characterised Latin American XXth century literature. Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares are not renown authors... of course they're not...

Ancient languages that so many Spanish-speaking people tend to defame, like Greek or Latin, have stood the test of time

Who defamed Greek or Latin?

mainly due to the fact that they housed some of the best stories and epics known to man

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, El Poema del Mio Cid, these of course are not good stories, and of course, they haven't stood the test of time...

also because of the amazing and life-changing dose of culture/history you get along with it. Try saying the same about Spanish

Yes, I think that Edipo Rex is showing at the local theatre's in Latin... Wiggy, do you know Latin or Greek? I doubt it...

A language is significant if it leaves or is leaving a lasting mark on literature in general. A language is not significant if it has no great works of written art and is instead only used worth a damn in spoken conversation and/or only exists as some sort of method for a dangerous riot aimed at North America to bring down English. (You pretty much said it did yourself)

Just because you're an ignorant fool doesn't mean that there is no great literature in Spanish....

Classics, like ol Homer used to crank out, are TOTALLY ABSENT from the Spanish COMMUNITY OF LITERATURE.

Name a single American who's written something of the fame and repute of The Iliad and The Oddyssey?

*jeopardy music plays*

It's "Write" not "Right", Gianny. Anyway, gimme one Spanish book you consider a classic for the ages. Right now.

I'll tell you a few: El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. El Poema del Mio Cid. El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera. Cien Años de Soledad. El Aleph.

LTEC, as Spanish is nothing more than a poorly done useless knock-off of Latin, I'm no real stranger to it.

English is a knock off French, German and Latin...

Wiglaf, la ignorancia que se evidencia a traves de tus repetidas explosiones de estupidez y paranoia en estos foros es calamitosa. Sos el ejemplo de lo que es el tipico yanqui imbecil e ignorante, me recuerdas al General Ripper de la pelicula de Kubrick. Si, si, has descubierto la conspiracion internacional castiza, vamos a envenenarte tus preciados fluidos corporales, y despues te vamos a destazar y eviscerar y darle de comer a los perros de la guerra.

[KrazyHorse]

Anyhow, this is pointless. The only language whose literature sucks almost uniformly is French.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Anyhow, this is pointless. The only language whose literature sucks almost uniformly is French.

I was under the impression that making such a statement was a criminal offense in your native Quebec.

[KrazyHorse]

Possibly. I'm about to hang an English-only sign out my window. Call Amnesty International.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Giancarlo

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/subject/iberian/Spanishauthors18th.html

That link just made you look like an ******* wiggy, those are Spanish authors from just the 18th century. I would shut up if I were you.

Sorry Gian, that won't work. It's not a Fox link...

[Giancarlo]

Gosh, El Awrence is such a great guy... he helped backed me up for once while I went out to eat. Sorry wiggy, I went out for lunch. I have a lot of respect for Borges, an Argentine writer (correct me if I am wrong).

el tipico yanqui imbecil

Wiggy = Brainwashed White Supremacist Whore

Wiggy is the worst of the worst racist pigs out there. Next he will be going after Asians. This is just getting stupid, though it is pretty damn funny. I can't believe what wiggy is actually saying... he went from a funny idiot, to a funny *******.

[Stefu]

take this bullshit and shove up it your ass

I'd just like to announce that I love this sentence. Love it love it LLLLOVE IT! It's so simple, yet so brilliant! No, I'm not being sarcastic - it's just great! It's something we all should use in our everyday life!

Why is everyone looking at me like that? I'm not being sarcastic, honest guv!

Anyway, Wiglaughable, this thread yet again demostrates your complete ability to dodge inconvenient facts. People have named classic Spanish books - Don Quijote and works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for example - but since facts don't suit you, like they never do, you ignore them. Then again, you're a DL.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Wiglaf

Latin's still taught in schools because of religious texts and services, true, but also because of the amazing and life-changing dose of culture/history you get along with it.

Which obviously somehow passed you by

[Wiglaf]

Then again, you're a DL.

Whatever. Fall back on that all you want Steffuski.

Wiggy is the worst of the worst racist pigs out there. Next he will be going after Asians. This is just getting stupid, though it is pretty damn funny. I can't believe what wiggy is actually saying... he went from a funny idiot, to a funny *******.

Since when were you all for PC, Gianny? Truly disappointing.

Name a single American who's written something of the fame and repute of The Iliad and The Oddyssey?

Last time I checked this was about language, not nationality.

Who defamed Greek or Latin?

That drunk MrWhere guy.

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha has to account for something... Federico Garcia Lorca, Miguel de Unamuno, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra... these are NOT renown Spanish writers. Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez did NOT create a whole new school of writing that characterised Latin American XXth century literature. Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Adolfo Bioy Casares are not renown authors... of course they're not...

I'll have to check some of those great, moving epics out sometime soon at my local library. It's a wonder half of them are totally unknown and lack any sort of cultural impact, but that's ok.

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Since when were you all for PC, Gianny? Truly disappointing.

Huh?

I'll have to check some of those great, moving epics out sometime soon at my local library. It's a wonder half of them are totally unknown and lack any sort of cultural impact, but that's ok.

Yeah you do so... and cultural impact? Most certainly yes. If you disagree... I have one thing to say: What the **** have you been smoking?

[Alexander's Horse]

Actually Wiglaf is RIGHT about Spanish literature before the 20th century. Most of it is crap.

The reason for this was the censorship of the Catholic Church, prevailed throughout most of the Latin world.

[Dr. Nick]

I'll have to check some of those great, moving epics out sometime soon at my local library. It's a wonder half of them are totally unknown and lack any sort of cultural impact, but that's ok.

You can also check out "Man of la Mancha" a musical based on El Ingenioso Hidalgo, you can also rent "El Cid" starring Charlton Heston based on El Mio Cid.

I can tell you that just because some ignorant American doesn't know they exist doesn't mean they don't have a cultural impact anywhere else. Any self respecting scholar will have heard about both these books, as well as about Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges or Mario Vargas Llosa. Secondly, why would literature in Spanish have any impact on the US culture? It's stupid to say that. In the same way, English literature has had very little impact on Spanish culture. In the same way that Russian literature has had little impact on African culture.

But, oh, right, you're some ignorant American who thinks that American culture is the only worthwhile thing and when someone points at anything outside of the US on maps you probably reply "there be dragons"...