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Doesn't your mind expand that to "I feel discomfort and become uneasy", or is mine just broken?
by jszymborski 8y ago
Doesn'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.