{"id":1243,"date":"2007-07-28T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T14:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2015-03-30T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:29:05","slug":"on-dead-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"On Dead Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Saturday morning. Laundry! It being Saturday, and because I don’t want to think, let’s do another meme!<\/p>\n

Let’s recap some recent memes. I’m Arthurian literature<\/a>, I’m an INFP<\/a> (here too<\/a>), and I’m Ireland<\/a>. I’m also “All You Need Is Love<\/a>,” but doesn’t that go without saying?<\/p>\n

And now, if I were a dead language, I would be…<\/p>\n

Your Score: Older Futhark<\/SPAN><\/H2>
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Language of the Norse, Older Futhark<\/a>! 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.<\/P><\/p>\n\n\n
Link: The Which Ancient Language Are You Test<\/a> written by imipak<\/a> on OkCupid Free Online Dating<\/a>, home of the The Dating Persona Test<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I didn’t rig this, honest. I had no<\/i> clue how this test was going to come out. I was thinking maybe<\/i> Etruscan. But a Viking language? Vikings, runes, Tolkien! That so<\/i> fits me it’s not funny. Age of Empires II<\/i>—I love<\/i> playing as the Vikings. They have a cool building set. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I have<\/i> to stop taking these quizzes. Have I become that<\/i> predictable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Saturday morning. Laundry! It being Saturday, and because I don’t want to think, let’s do another meme! Let’s recap some recent memes. I’m Arthurian literature, I’m an INFP (here too), and I’m Ireland. I’m also “All You Need Is Love,” but doesn’t that go without saying? And now, if I were a dead language,Continue reading “On Dead Languages”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[76,4110,360,4107,127],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","tag-age-of-empires-ii","tag-history","tag-language","tag-memes","tag-vikings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}