Apparently I know less about languages than I thought

[cerowyn]

Via the NADS message board, I stumbled upon one of those online quizzes (at OKCupid!) that happens to be about a topic I know something about: linguistics. Here's the LJ code they give you on the last page:

Language Scholar

You scored a 310 out of 400 on language knowledge.

Outstanding! You've scored

Comments

[caprinus]

There's just no making you happy, is there? The purple purple puff prose; the gold statue; the 99th percentile score -- it's all but a vasty nothing! If you can't get every answer right, there must be something wrong with the test. littleminx, you better get a perfect score or else! :P

And in the meantime, your lower-scoring readers commit ritual suicides in droves, and the OkCupid robots heap the bodies in lye-soaked pits and cry "VAE VINCIS!" while flagellating themselves with printouts of the complete corpus of the Hittite Dictionary Project, soaked with their blood-red hydraulics.

PS: I haven't done the test yet. Huge performance anxiety! Especially as I never even got my degree, let alone publish, lol.

[caprinus]

Hey, what's the link to the test? *lazy*

[cerowyn]

Here

[littleminx]

Yeah, i was just thinking that. Except... i'm WAY too lazy to do a 400 question test on languages. I can eat glass, it does not harm me.

[cerowyn]

It's no where near 400 questions -- that's just what they make the score out of.

[littleminx]

Oh... well... in that case...

i'll try it tonight.

Unless, of course, i get distracted by my porn chores.

[caprinus]

There was 37 questions I think.

[littleminx]

you better get a perfect score or else!

Or else what?