Just the thing for a lazy Saturday.
What obsolete skill are you?
You are ‘French’. In the nineteenth century, it was the international language of diplomacy. It is a ‘beautiful’ language, meaning that it is really just a low-fidelity copy of Latin.You know the importance of communicating ‘diplomatically’, which for you means both being polite and friendly when necessary and using sophisticated, vicious sarcasm when appropriate. Your life is guided by either existentialism or nihilism, depending on the weather. You have a certain appreciation for the finer things in life, which is a diplomatic way of saying that you are a disgusting hedonist. Your problem is that French has been obsolete for a long time.
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raincoaster 
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hey, I like the little icons.
SBK’s work, not mine. Slick, eh?
You are ‘Gregg shorthand’. Originally designed to enable people to write faster, it is also very useful for writing things which one does not want other people to read, inasmuch as almost no one knows shorthand any more.
You know how important it is to do things efficiently and on time. You also value your privacy, and (unlike some people) you do not pretend to be friends with just everyone; that would be ridiculous. When you do make friends, you take them seriously, and faithfully keep what they confide in you to yourself. Unfortunately, the work which you do (which is very important, of course) sometimes keeps you away from social activities, and you are often lonely. Your problem is that Gregg shorthand has been obsolete for a long time.
Better shorthand than shortarm . . ..
Terribly obscure…
My result?
“You are ‘growing one’s own food’.
You are guided by two words: ‘Live simply.’ You value quality over quantity in most things, and you have little use for the materialism and consumerism of modern culture. You know the value of hard work and try to be self-sufficient as much as possible, and what you do you do well. Unfortunately, no man is an island, and you cannot do everything yourself. Your puritanical work ethic makes makes people think that you are weird, and not much fun. Your problem is that growing one’s own food has been obsolete for a long time.”
Hey now, that stung and I didn’t even take the quiz!
What a great break up line:
“You’ve become a uselessly outdated skill.”
LMAO
Blonde pop diva comes to mind.
You are ‘programming in QBASIC’. This programming language (of which the acronym stands for ‘Quick Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code’), which is so primitive that it cannot easily be used for any purpose involving the Internet nor even sound, was current more than a decade ago.
You are independent, in a good way. When something which you need cannot be found, you make it yourself. In writing and in talking with people, you value clarity and precision; your friends may not realize how important that is. When necessary, you are prepared to be a mediator in conflicts between your friends. You are very rational, and you think of things in terms of logic and common sense. Unfortunately, your emotionally unstable friends may be put off by your devotion to logic; they may even accuse you of pedantry and insensitivity. Your problem is that programming in QBASIC has been obsolete for a long time.
I love that French is an obsolete skill. Goood. Tiiimes. …who let that frat boy at my keyboard?
Mlle la Marchionesse
Je suis (pronounced suisse) un advocate old-fashione qui occasionallement escrire une letter d’affairs en norman francais (pronounced fransaisse)
Normallement, cette Lettre obtaine un (or is that une) reaction, even d’un Soliciteur dormant
Si vous ne savez pas la francasie, addez “-er” a l’anglais ou utilsez un mot anglais
eg “une feme sole qui estait engage pur teacher singer and dancer” [from an old English Court case on the law of Infants in the 17th Century)
Le vestre servant
L’Aigle Gris
Zat Eagle has a zertain jenny say what . . . .
Me aussi – Je suis French too.
mine came up “internet blogger”
This would be French, the lingua franca of much of Africa? The language which is again becoming the main native language of Europe? A language with one of the world’s great literatures? Die, quiz-maker, die.
Also, something witty.
Main native language of Europe apart from Russian, that is.
I turned out to be “Writing Internet Quizzes”.
It says I am regular metric verse,
Which I, of course, do consider a curse.
It claims me to be too meloncholic,
But I’d rather have scansion than colick.
hmmm
Rubbish
Well done, Alabaster
I am from laughing too much @ Alabaster!!!!
“I’d rather have scansion than colick” is one of the great lines of English literature!
I think Raincoaster got arrested!
Alabaster wins.
Also, I was born in France but even I have to acknowledge that we’ve come a long way since the days of the Carolingians…and it’s not up.