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> he was drinking “lethal” amounts of alcohol: three liters of gin every day. This is slightly OT as it's a minor(ish) sentence in the article, but I fail to s
by eric_h 10y ago
> he was drinking “lethal” amounts of alcohol: three liters of gin every day.
This is slightly OT as it's a minor(ish) sentence in the article, but I fail to see the reason for the quotes. For anyone but the most hardened alcoholics, that is a lethal dose of alcohol.
Edit: pluralized a word, regardless, I think you have to be in the ~98th percentile for daily liquor consumption to survive this.
- striking 10y agoI think the fact that it's not unilaterally lethal, but typically so, is the reason for the quotes. If it were literally lethal, no quotes, it would imply that any human that drank that quantity would die and that the subject here is simply superhuman. It is totally offtopic, but I consider their grammar absolutely correct.
- roywiggins 10y agoI assumed the quote marks were because he had described the amounts that way himself.
- anigbrowl 10y agoThe quote marks indicate that the characterization comes from the subject rather than the writer.