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Subject:RE: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke? From:mlist -at- safenet-inc -dot- com To:docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:56:10 -0400
Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com]
> Sent: April 21, 2006 12:42 PM
> To: vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?
>
>
> And now that you've brought it up, I'm at least slightly annoyed
> by people who use "nauseous" (capable of causing nausea) when
> they mean "nauseated" (feeling nausea). "Nauseous" is roughly
> synonymous with "noxious".
>
> Saying "I am nauseous" is kind of like saying "I am exhausting"
> when you mean "I am exhausted". The statement may be true,
> but it is probably not the meaning you intended to convey...
Fred, I feel your pain and agree with you, and was about
to make the same post this morning... (damned elipsis
slipped in again) but it's a lost cause. Give it up,
man.
Before hitting "send", I grabbed my Oxford Concise and
looked up 'nauseous'. Guess what the FIRST definition
was?
I didn't have the heart to look up the history and
see when "feeling nauseated" became the first,
rather than last meaning of the word.
The idiots of the world have succeeded in warping
a perfectly good "nauseous" to the destruction of
"nauseated" and "queasy". Rust never sleeps.
Moan.
Kevin
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