Re: The price of oil

On 04.10.2022 13.41, Merlyne wrote:
> 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?

Noeh, but I did check the spelling of malheur...
> 
> 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)

Of course not - you're canadian.

>> 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..

Only when someone else is wrong.

> I guess everything does stay on your permanent record.

That's what permanent means, innit.
No, it meant that my grade average (from 0-13 ATT) was 0,1 to low to get 
accepted at Copenhagen Uni. that year.

BeH