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For the first, pedants like to point out that a statement like: "I was feeling nauseous" is incorrect and should be "I was feeling nauseated", as nauseous is "
by eterm 3y ago
For the first, pedants like to point out that a statement like:
"I was feeling nauseous" is incorrect and should be "I was feeling nauseated", as nauseous is "causing nausea" but that's just pedantry and dictionaries now reflect that and now also list it as "affected by nausea".
- mrguyorama 3y agoIt's pedantic yes, but more importantly it's prescriptive. It's taking as a given that language has a "correct" way to do things and pushing back on natural language evolution. It's eugenics for language lol
- jpc0 3y agoI figured that but agree with you. I generally wouldn't use that meaning but it's not like I'm going to fight about it being used.