Re: The price of oil

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:

> On 03.10.2022 14.04, Merlyne wrote:
>> BeH <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>> 
>>> On 02.10.2022 13.12, Merlyne wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> when I was at uni, I got a job one summer working with a
>>>>>> psychology lab. I was basically a guinea pig for the summer. It
>>>>>> paid really well. I got to work with a hypnotist which adult me
>>>>>> is now nervous about. One of the experiments they also did was to
>>>>>> assess how alcohol impairs one's brain. I had to take a standard
>>>>>> IQ test and then have a drink and then take another IQ test etc. 
>>>>>> My scores kept getting better up to and including the 3rd drink
>>>>>> but after that, it was chaos.I'm not a psychologist, but I can
>>>>>> see that drunk people wouldn't give a shit about taking a stupid
>>>>>> test. 
>>>>>
>>>>> ...or not being able to read the instructions. The getting better
>>>>> with each test is a thing, though. Being familiar with the type of
>>>>> problem the tests contains helps significantly.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At work, I have to go through second language assessment every 5
>>>> years to supervise since I'm not fully bilingual. The reading and
>>>> writing tests are multiple guess exams. When in doubt, pick B. They
>>>> have these workshops to prepare for the exams which is basically
>>>> doing practice tests all day. Eventually patterns appear.
>>>
>>> Patterns of the language I hope - not just patterns of when to pick
>>> B. Or you could - and this is only a suggestion - learn french and
>>> subject yourself to it from time to time.
>>>
>> I have been subjected to it my whole life.  They even teach it in
>> school. I have been on language training about a gazillion times.
>> Some people just have trouble learning languages. I am one of those
>> people. 
> 
> Quelle malheur ma chère...

Google translate?

J'ai réussi à les examens requise pour superviser.

(I see I need to find out how to set my newreader to UTF-8)
(And no, I didn't use an app to translate that)

> 
> Well I flunked french in "high school". If not for that I might have 
> become a lawyer...
> 

Well, it appears that you do like to argue..

I guess everything does stay on your permanent record.