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semantic analysised adj. Drunk on the strength of which every sentence is dismantled for meaning before it can be spoken. semantic borrowinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and importing other people's meanings into words already under its command. semantic calqued adj. Drunk by the third round, and translating expressions literally until conversation proceeds by awkward replicas. semantic differentiationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and splitting each familiar word into two meanings before choosing neither. semantic drifted adj. Still drunk, and gradually carrying every word away from the meaning it had at the start. semantic fielded adj. Too drunk to leave one subject, gathering every nearby word into the same conversational territory. semantic loaned adj. Sufficiently drunk to give an existing word an additional meaning borrowed from another tongue. semantic netted adj. Having drunk enough to catch every nearby concept, but not enough to connect them sensibly. semantic networked adj. Having drunk more than enough to connect every object in the room by increasingly tenuous relations. semantic satiationed adj. You have drunk enough to repeat one word until it ceases to mean anything at all. Shinece was semantic satiationed, saying 'stairs' until the staircase became merely a sound. semantic shifted adj. Of a drinker: the meaning of each instruction changes over time, particularly between successive steps. semantic tableaued adj. Drunk by the third round, and reducing every disagreement to branches of true and false. semantic versioninged adj. Describing a drinker who numbers each fresh mishap as a major, minor or patch-level release. semantic-pragmatic disordered adj. A drinker who understands the words but not why the person on the stairs has said them. Mairene was semantic-pragmatic disordered, taking 'mind the step' as an invitation to admire it. semanticalitied adj. Drunk by closing time, and insisting that the precise meaning of ‘another’ remains negotiable. semanticianed adj. A drinker so far gone that every stumble prompts a scholarly inquiry into what it signifies. Preethi was semanticianed, analysing the meaning of each wobble instead of correcting it.