this quiz has my name on it!

[vaznetti]

Seen on midnightsjane's livejournal, a quiz about ancient languages:

Your Score: Linear B

You scored

You are Linear B. Even those who can follow you think you're all Greek to them. Which, after all, is true - Linear B being the first known text for written Greek. To most people, you're incomprehensible. But what do you care? You're tough, hard, long-enduring and have greater nobility than most. Naturally, you don't admit to borrowing extensively from your brother Linear A.

Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test written by imipak on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I was all set to say that this was particularly cool because I've studied Linear B, but I've studied a lot of obscure ancient languages, so I guess the odds were good. But I've studied more Linear B than most of the others.


In fact, here's the list: Ogham, Glagolista, Phoenician, Linear A, Linear B, Old English, Old Finnish, Aramaic, Iberian, Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Demotic, Coptic, Lugano, Etruscan, Oscan, Proto-Elamite, Anatolian Hieroglyphics, Proto-Sinaitic, Wadi el-Hol, Byblos, Greek, Ugaritic, Mayan.

I've only formally studied five of them (if you count Etruscan), and have a small,passing familiarity with five more, if you count Linear A, which no one can read anyway. But I've forgotten most of that stuff.

Comments

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

I got Linear B also.

Come chat with me. In English. :)

[the-grynne.livejournal.com]

Same for me. :)

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

I'm Akkadian! :D

I like it!

[cija.livejournal.com]

I am Phoenician! The one all other languages bow down to, so says the test. I feel good about that.

[vaznetti]

The one all other languages bow down to, so says the test.

Hmpf! Well, other languages written with alphabetic systems, maybe.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm impressed! here I thought I was pretty smart because I learned the Greek alphabet!
To be honest, I wasn't sure that Akkadian was an actual language..however,
I am Akkadian!
:)

[vaznetti]

Well, remember that I do this for a living. You probably know a billion things that I have no idea about, starting with putting in an IV and going on from there.

And yes, Akkadian is totally a real language! Just a very, very old one.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

True - we're just experts in different fields. :)
That's what I love about my flist..everybody knows a whole lot about stuff I don't, and therefore my own knowledge base expands.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

Linear A here.

This is sadly appropriate for me. Yesterday one of my big work projects got cancelled just as it was about to go big, and I was thinking to myself that whenever people figure out how hard I work on things, they then decide it's probably not worth the trouble.

Poor old misunderstood Linear A.

[vaznetti]

The thing about Etruscan is that you can learn pretty much all there is to know of it in about an afternoon -- or spend the rest of your life on it! I took a seminar on early Rome, in grad school, and we did a bit on inscriptions.

I'd love to offer a seminar on earlier Roman history, really -- it's such a fun field! I always end up working on it through the Augustan filter, but it's really a lot cooler taken in its own right.

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

Huh. I got Linear B too. How I wish I knew what they mean by that.

You know, it would be some kind of crime against fanfic if you didn't Sue yourself a little, given the fandom you're in.

Randomly, in lieu of scholarship: I once read a whole book on the epigraphy of the Dead Sea Scrolls (which, as it happens, are currently on display down here--some of them, I mean). I've been a fangirl since I was a kid, and when Claremont finally did the right thing I was ecstatic.

[vaznetti]

I think these memes are mostly about the cool pictures, really.

Unfortunately, Mary Sue Me knows a lot about stuff I know nothing about. I fear that there will be research in my future.

[irishkate.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I've said it but you know there is an invite open to you and the hub to come get a tour of kinsale with me any time (with warning) and a place to stay thrown in.

[vaznetti]

Thank you! If we ever get over to Ireland, we may well take you up on that.

[loligo.livejournal.com]

I like to think of myself as a pretty erudite person, but I've never even heard of Glagolista. (I got Phoenician, BTW. I guess that makes me the glorious loser of the classical Mediterranean, doesn't it?)

[loligo.livejournal.com]

Aha! It's Old Church Slavonic! Well, why didn't they just *say* so? *g*

::took Russian in college::

[vaznetti]

I'd never heard of it either, and meant to google it to find out what it was -- I don't know why they didn't just say "Old Church Slavonic," in that case.

And now that I think about it, Gothic should have been on that list, too.

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

I thought one of the questions was a trick question, because the Doctor is Monkey.

But I am linear A, the compiler language of the ancient world. And I so wanted to be Mayan, which has to be the fortran.

[morpheusrex.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo - *Wōđinaz!

ᚬÓss er algingautr
ok ásgarðs jöfurr,
ok valhallar vísi!

Your Score: Older Futhark

You scored

Language of the Norse, Older Futhark! Thirty symbols, all told. And no hardier, more warrior-like tongue has ever graced the longships of the Viki or left the Celts and Saxons in such quivering fear. There's only one drawback, that being you died 800 years ago.