<div>Discover <em>who</em> is your inner semiotician (by Oscar Miyamoto)</div>

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Discover Your Inner Semiotician

Are you curious about the semiotic exploration of your personality? Dive into this engaging quiz that will help you uncover your inner semiotician! Discover how your perceptions, values, and preferences align with the fascinating world of semiotics.

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11 Questions3 MinutesCreated by SemioticDreamer421

What color is the pipe in the picture?

You receive a love letter from a secret admirer. What’s your first reaction?

What are your sources?

Who is sending the message?

What a problematic ordinary language

Look at these beautiful Indo-European vowels! So pretty.

Let’s discuss it in summer over tea and sauna

You walk into a photo studio. How do you want to be portrayed for eternity?

Visionary genius. Tight tie, fluffy mustache. This is going to Wikipedia in 100 years from now.

Victorian lady/gentleman. Solemn pose. Black and white portrait I say.

Sophisticated avant-garde. Smart glasses, sharp outfit. Newspaper material please.

Scholarly professor. Classy pipe, and nerdy suit. I want my bookshelves as a background.

Casual, whatever. I do not even comb my hair. Wait, you took the pic already?

What’s you networking style?

Summer conferences, anyone?

I exchange handwritten letters with dear colleagues.

I work alone in my studio, but I quote everyone’s research.

I let my students do most of the job, and make a name for themselves.

I get my hands dirty in adventurous fieldwork; but also in excruciating lab work.

Expat working abroad. I belong to the world, baby!

Pick a crazy combo of thesis supervisors for your postdoc

Pick the hobby you identify the most with:

Writing mystery novels. This is gonna be best-selling stuff one day.

Hanging out with equally bohemian colleagues

Finding hidden anagrams in ancient Greek poetry. Letter by letter

Advocating for feminism and comunism. Audiences need to be informed!

I play the clarinet. Also, they say I am an ‘accomplished whistler’, whatever that means.

Excuse me. I have no time for mumbo jumbo

After you die, in what way would you like people to learn about your work?

My formulas and diagrams speak for themselves

By watching videos of my interviews for TV shows

Universal philosophers will resume my pioneering work, eventually

Bitch, please, I am popular already! People quote me all the time

By deciphering 100,000 pages of lost unpublished manuscripts in my basement

My pupils will edit and publish my brilliant lectures using their own notes

By studying a full-time MA programme in Semiotics

What is your love story/philosophy?

My children will bury me next to my wife/husband

Divorced and re-married

Love should have no rules, like…none

One’s heart loves what it loves. But no kids please

Married. But my career is my one true love.

Pick a middle-age crisis for your next reincarnation

Sorry, I will live strong and die young

I will change my name; and run away with my Spanish-speaking gypsy lover

Middle-age crisis? I was born before those existed. I am making some progress here!

I will fight in a war; renounce to my family’s HUGE fortune; and become a gardener

Discover who is your inner semiotician (by Oscar Miyamoto)

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