Sunday, July 22, 2007

What ancient language are you?

Jim at PaleoJudaica pointed to a personality test, and I was hooked by its perspective... The Which Ancient Language Are You Test. Hmm... apparently I am Akkadian. I would have preferred Hebrew, but schizoid and long-lasting works for me, too...

You are Akkadian, a blend of the incomprehensible symbols of the Sumerians with the unwritable sounds of the early Semitic peoples. However, the writing just doesn't suit the words and doesn't represent everything needed, so you end up a schizoid mess. Invented in Babylon, you're probably to blame for that tower story. However, crazy as you are, you're much loved and appreciated, and remain actively in use by records keepers long after schools have switched to other languages.

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Blogger Israel said...

Wow, I'm strange, exotic, and still open to a surprising amount of debate:

Language of Beowulf! Original language of the Saxons! Strange, exotic and still open to a surprising amount of debate, you are baffling and mysterious even as you open the earliest English books ever written.

How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Ideogramatic
You scored higher than 99% on Syllablic
You scored higher than 99% on Logogramic
You scored higher than 99% on Alphabetic

Israel.

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