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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch
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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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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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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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          bnrstnr
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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

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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            @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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @bnrstnr
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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" ... oops

                Busted. You should go apologize now. 🙂

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                • NerdyDadN
                  NerdyDad
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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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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @NerdyDad
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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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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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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                      • popesterP
                        popester
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                        Amen.

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                        • JaredBuschJ
                          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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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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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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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.

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