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I feel discomfort reading “I feel discomfort and uneasy” because discomfort is a noun and uneasy is an adjective.
by ttul 8y ago
I feel discomfort reading “I feel discomfort and uneasy” because discomfort is a noun and uneasy is an adjective.
- jszymborski 8y agoDoesn't your mind expand that to "I feel discomfort and become uneasy", or is mine just broken?
- exikyut 8y agoI semantically autocorrected to "I feel discomfort and unease". Something about it being the same number of words and the least letters' difference; I can't rule out the possibility of a 'y'/'e' error.
- JangoSteve 8y agoMy mind expanded it to "I feel discomfort and I feel uneasy," since both work. You can feel nouns and you can feel adjectives, just in a different sense. It sounds weird, because we like to construct our logic with parallelism [1], and in this case we're using different definitions of the word, "feel". This makes pulling "feel" out front in an associative manner less correct. I feel[a] hunger, and I feel[b] sad. I feel[a or b, but not both] hunger and sad. [a] transitive verb; a physical sensation, acting on the object (in this case, "hunger") [b] intransitive verb [2]; an emotional state, described by the adjective (in this case, "uneasy") [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_verb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intransitive_verb EDIT: Clarity. Also, IANAL (I am not a linguist), and generally you don't want to take lingual advice from an engineer, like me.
- jstanley 8y agoYou can both "feel discomfort" and "feel uneasy", so I think it works.
- green_on_black 8y agoNo. You see: void feel(x: Noun) void feel(x: Adj) "discomfort and uneasy" is actually an instamce of the superclass of Noun and Adj, but there is no overload for that so it doesn't compile.
- diegoperini 8y agoWith better heuristics and fuzzy logic, our IDEs should detect and handle such usage without hassle.
- Filligree 8y agoI suspect that sort of autocorrections would be AI-complete.
- RIMR 8y agoI agree with this fellow human.
- cerberusss 8y agoYou must be a robot. If you'd written your post in capitals though, I'd totally have fallen for it.
- laretluval 8y agoThis is an example of zeugma. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis
- jwilk 8y agoNon-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma_and_syllepsis
- LambdaComplex 8y agoThat reminds me of a line from Green-Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf that I've always liked: "Setting suns and lonely lovers free"
- RIMR 8y agoIt's the perfect way to convey that feeling, so I'm stealing it now.