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language planninged adj. Drunk to the extent of devising a five-year plan for saying something simple, then losing the subject. Markail got language planninged and produced a policy document before ordering another drink. language policed adj. Drunk on the strength of correcting everyone's pronunciation while missing the step beneath you. Domique became language policed and arrested three harmless mispronunciations near the bar. language proficiencied adj. Drunk since last orders, and fluent only in gestures, repetition, and pointing towards the stairs. Trenya was language proficiencied by midnight, communicating chiefly through elaborate pointing. language replacemented adj. Drunk by the third round, and quietly replacing every intended word with the one beside it. Kerion went language replacemented and called the staircase a lift throughout the journey home. language resourced adj. Drunk by closing time, and drawing on an extensive private archive of words nobody else can retrieve. Gerrika became language resourced and searched three dictionaries for the name of the coat rack. language schooled adj. Of a drinker who has acquired, over the course of the evening, enough of every nearby language to cause offence in all of them. Enajah came back from the bar language schooled and attempting to order in three tongues simultaneously. language scripted adj. Too drunk to depart from a prepared line, even when the conversation and staircase have changed. Dorothia went language scripted and repeated her greeting to each landing. language servered adj. Sufficiently drunk to await corrections from an invisible editor before completing each sentence. Daxxon became language servered and paused on every stair for an imagined diagnostic. language shifted adj. Having drunk enough to move gradually from coherent speech into a dialect consisting chiefly of vowels. Nolan went language shifted halfway through describing the taxi and never returned. language surveyed adj. Having drunk more than enough to interview the room about accents, comprehension, and regional vocabulary. Devionne became language surveyed and questioned strangers about their preferred word for bread. language swapped adj. You have drunk enough to exchange words with the nearest stranger, neither party retaining the original set. Teila got language swapped and borrowed the barman's vocabulary for the rest of the evening. language technologied adj. You are drunk and attempting to make software interpret the noises coming from your mouth. Khileigh became language technologied and dictated a command to the automatic hand dryer. language transferred adj. Of a drinker: gradually abandoning ordinary speech for whatever sounds the company appears to understand. Naviyah went language transferred and finished the evening communicating with nods and table taps. language-learnered adj. You are drunk and treating every unfamiliar word as a lesson personally addressed to you. Godwill became language-learnered and copied a label into his notebook. language-learninged adj. Of a drinker who has absorbed enough evening to regard speech as a newly acquired faculty. Aryannah was language-learninged and spoke as though each sentence had just been issued. languaged (/[ˈlaŋɡwɪd͡ʒ]d/) adj. Drunk to a degree that turns ordinary conversation into a full evening's curriculum. Callianne was languaged at the pub, teaching Jenniferlynn an alphabet nobody had requested.