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I can't stand reading modern Germans. They generally read and think just like English, for one thing, so that you can barely tell you've entered another languag
by romaaeterna 7y ago
I can't stand reading modern Germans. They generally read and think just like English, for one thing, so that you can barely tell you've entered another language.
It is pleasant, however to retreat to the 19th-century Germans, and bathe in their erudition and learning, from the period before the world went sour.
- _delirium 7y agoThere is still a fairly regular stream of German-language "serious" monographs coming out, written by philosophers, media theorists, etc. Not usually found on the Spiegel bestseller list, though.
- romaaeterna 7y agoIndeed, the Germans remain good at "serious". It's just much more English-language derivative than it was pre-WWII. Today, I'd call their academic thought 5 years behind English-language academic thought instead of 5 years ahead of like it used to be.
- panzagl 7y ago19th-century Germans are the primary reason 'the world went sour'.