Nauseated or Nauseous
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So if you use nauseated as you did, it would be...
He nauseated me, or I nauseated him. It's something you do to someone. The way you describe it is wrong even for the verb
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Compare to the verb run. You ran yesterday. Imagine using ran as an adjective. I feel ran. Sounds really weird! That's exactly how feeling nauseated sounds
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I was nauseated by the noxious fumes. That is perfectly fine according to Oxford.
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@bnrstnr said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
I was nauseated by the noxious fumes. That is perfectly fine according to Oxford.
Correct and it made you nauseous. "Was nauseated" is a verb, not an adjective. So outside of the discussion of which is the adjective.
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I agree though, almost everybody is trying to use "nauseated" as an adjective, which is obviously wrong, as it's a verb.
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@bnrstnr said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
I agree though, almost everybody is trying to use "nauseated" as an adjective, which is obviously wrong, as it's a verb.
Exactly. Which is weird as the adjective is SO well known. These are super common English words.
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Languages are alive. Nauseated will become an adjective.
It is not currently, but that matters little to how people use language.
But to @scottalanmiller's point, if you are going to try and correct someone, then you need to use the currently defined definition of the word. Not the colloquial definition or use.
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@jaredbusch said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
But to @scottalanmiller's point, if you are going to try and correct someone, then you need to use the currently defined definition of the word. Not the colloquial definition or use.
As the one being corrected, I agree. Nauseated remains a verb, no one is using it as an adjective. It is used solely in the situation where someone is correcting someone using nauseous correctly. It sounds awkward and is never really said as an adjective.
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I actually just learned from this thread that it's ONLY a verb lol
I harass my wife every time she says she "feels nauseous" ... oops -
@scottalanmiller said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
Nauseated remains a verb, no one is using it as an adjective.
No, a lot of people are using it as an adjective. There is nothing wrong with that. That is how languages change over time.
The only thing that is wrong is that you were corrected incorrectly with colloquial usage, opposed to actual definition.
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@jaredbusch said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
@scottalanmiller said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
Nauseated remains a verb, no one is using it as an adjective.
No, a lot of people are using it as an adjective. There is nothing wrong with that. That is how languages change over time.
The only thing that is wrong is that you were corrected incorrectly with colloquial usage, opposed to actual definition.
Nauseous remains way more colloquial, though, as well. There is a reason one sounds really weird when you hear it out loud - because basically no one says it (except in this context.) Right now nauseous is both the only defined usage, and the only that I know of in any serious usage. Oxford should record the adjective of the new word if they see it being actually used (at least with intent.)
I'm not sure how "accidents" are used for dictionaries - where people are openly misusing something that they thought was something else rather than intentionally meaning something new.
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@bnrstnr said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
I actually just learned from this thread that it's ONLY a verb lol
I harass my wife every time she says she "feels nauseous" ... oopsBusted. You should go apologize now.
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If I am an English professor, then I would correct someone on the usage. Since that is not the case, I will keep my mouth shut on other people's use of the English language.
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@nerdydad said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
If I am an English professor, then I would correct someone on the usage. Since that is not the case, I will keep my mouth shut on other people's use of the English language.
Why should only English professors care? It's not wrong to help people, it's just important not to correct them when you don't know.
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I most certainly want to be corrected if I am using a word wrong. Famously (to me at least) Jared corrected me on misusing ignorance (I thought it was the state of ignoring, but it is not, it is older than ignore) which was important so that I use it correctly now. That's how we grow. Letting people continue to sound like idiots just sets them up for failure.
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Amen.
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@scottalanmiller said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
Famously (to me at least) Jared corrected me on misusing ignorance
Sadly, I have no memory of this.
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@jaredbusch said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
@scottalanmiller said in Nauseated or Nauseous:
Famously (to me at least) Jared corrected me on misusing ignorance
Sadly, I have no memory of this.
Perhaps you are ignorant of it.
