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orthohyperkeratosised adj. Drunk beyond ordinary roughness, with a thickened manner and no detectable conversational flexibility. Othar became orthohyperkeratosised and treated every gentle suggestion as an abrasive one. orthoimaged adj. Drunk to the point where every view of the pub appears corrected, flattened and oddly official. orthoimageried adj. Drunk enough to produce a complete survey of the pub from memory, including inaccuracies. orthokeratologied adj. Drunk past the point of seeing straight, yet convinced the evening has temporarily corrected your vision. orthokeratosised adj. Drunk in a way that thickens the surface of every opinion without producing any underneath. orthokinesised adj. Drunk, with the result that your speed varies according to whoever has just spoken to you. ortholatticed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves every choice complemented by an equal and opposite pub decision. ortholinearitied adj. Drunk to the extent of proceeding in a straight line, regardless of furniture or customary routes. Apria became ortholinearitied and attempted a direct route through three occupied tables. orthologed adj. Drunk on the strength of an ancestral connection, and therefore on familiar terms with every species of bore. orthologied adj. Reduced by drink to correcting everyone’s grammar, including the landlord’s. Shamso got orthologied and corrected Anesha’s pronunciation of the menu. orthologizationed adj. Drunk since last orders, and rendered into a relation of whatever company remains standing. Tamichael was orthologizationed, turning a roomful of strangers into one extended drinking lineage. orthologued adj. The drunkenness of one who has found, in another species, the same gene and a different pub. Margareta spent the evening identifying Eithyn as her genetic counterpart, thoroughly orthologued. orthometried adj. Softened by drink into reciting perfectly measured verse about a sandwich. orthominasragrited adj. Sharpened by drink into a mineralogical authority on a vanadium-bearing crystal nobody requested. Lama grew orthominasragrited and diagnosed the pub glass as a rare mineral. orthomitosised adj. Loosened by drink into dividing symmetrically, then leaving the room by opposite doors. orthomoded adj. Emboldened by drink to address two conversations at right angles, neither of them yours.