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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2005-02-22 06:43 pm (UTC)

I'm with you in clenching my teeth and not screaming about Latin. Quoting pointedly from Catullus is so much better, anyway: pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo . . . Also I just realized I'm listening to "Estuans Interius" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, whose "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi" is ripped off so often for film scores that I think it's a counter-argument for the obsolescence of Latin all in itself.

I went and looked at all the possible results for this quiz, and I agree with you. Out of its selection, I think only Gregg shorthand and QBASIC really fit the bill; I don't know a single person who uses Gregg shorthand (although I know some whose handwriting resembles those illegible loops and squiggles) and computer languages evolve so quickly that I wouldn't be surprised to learn (from a somewhat more reliable source) that QBASIC has indeed bitten the dust. But I'm sure somewhere in the world there is someone who still uses shorthand and QBASIC. Also, French. Go figure . . .

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