When I’m drunk, either:
- my foreign-language-speaking skills are amazingly good, or
- my perception of my foreign-language-speaking skills is amazingly bad
When I’m drunk, either:
It's both. Your inhibitions are lower so you speak more naturally and use more words without consideration of correctness which, if you think about it, is fine generally. Native speakers of a language are amazingly good at deduction of what a non native speaker is intending. You also don't pay attention to your mistakes, which makes the conversation flow easier for everyone.
For me, it's also a matter speaking louder - I have a (normal, I think) tendency to say things I'm unsure of quieter, so sometimes I've mumbled something that was correct (or correct enough) causing the very communication problems I was worried about.
The world needs more reposts of classic xkcd strips
And I need to finally buckle down and read the lot of it.
Isnt 0.14% of alcohol in blood concentration pretty high? Thats like 5 shots of 40% liquor, or 5 500ml beers.
0.1% = 1‰. About 4‰ is in the fatal range. 1.4‰ is okay.
Microsoft must have been binge drinking since Windows 7 was released. The teams that manage the rest of their software must not even know what it's like to be remotely sober, I'm surprised the Outlook server team hasn't died.
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