PSA: It's nauseated.

YachtRacer1977 · October 2008

Nauseous: causing or able to cause nausea

Nauseated: feeling nausea

If you feel like you're going to hurl, you are nauseated.

If you make OTHER people hurl, you are nauseous.

Thanks.

Annie_1208 · October 2008

Bravo!!!!

Neudorfer · October 2008

YachtRacer1977:
Nauseous: causing or able to cause nausea

Nauseated: feeling nausea

If you feel like you're going to hurl, you are nauseated.

If you make OTHER people hurl, you are nauseous.

Thanks.

i can't tell, but has something been bugging you?? haha.

manda_mullins · October 2008

Yesssssss!!!!!!!!

That is TOTALLY my biggest pet peeve!! I learned the difference in like 3rd grade and I have always been anal about it!

YachtRacer1977 · October 2008

I do tend to get annoyed by people who can't speak their own language properly, yes.

brideofscowboy · October 2008

Ahh yes.... lol

Hi725 · October 2008

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous

alli&pat · October 2008

i think i kinda love you now...this is one of my pet peeves, especially on this & other baby boards

JimsBride08 · October 2008

GL getting people to use proper grammer, spelling, etc. on here. At least they aren't TyPiNg LiKe ThIs or using crazy texting abbreviations.

YachtRacer1977 · October 2008

The unfortunate thing is that repeated incorrect usage of a term often results in said term becoming "commonplace". A perfect example of this is "irregardless".

What it really sounds like is a nation of stupid people who don't know their own language.

mrsjazzsinger · October 2008

I'll admit I did not know the difference - I promise not to mix them up again

Annie_1208 · October 2008

It's interesting to look at the link provided above and how it states online that nauseated is "losing ground" to Nauseous.... WTH? Since when did words and their correct definitions "lose ground" because they are widely used improperly?

Hi725 · October 2008

YachtRacer1977:

The unfortunate thing is that repeated incorrect usage of a term often results in said term becoming "commonplace". A perfect example of this is "irregardless".

What it really sounds like is a nation of stupid people who don't know their own language.

The english language is full of examples like this. Awful, for instance, used to mean (as it sounds) "full of awe". Gay meant happy. Languages evolve.

However, I fully agree with you on "irregardless". It makes me want to stab someone with a pen every time I hear it.

dmogmo · October 2008

Annie_1208:
It's interesting to look at the link provided above and how it states online that nauseated is "losing ground" to Nauseous.... WTH? Since when did words and their correct definitions "lose ground" because they are widely used improperly?

I thought that was funny too. It doesn't make it correct just because people say it that way.

kals · October 2008

You are such a language snob.

BlairWaldorf · October 2008

Oh Yacht, stop being so cranky.

manda_mullins · October 2008

This might be wrong, but an English prof. of mine once told us that fukc used to be an abbreviation that meant "for unholy carnal knowledge" that was put on signs when women were put in the stocks for adultery.

ToBeMrsC6907 · October 2008

THANK YOU!!! The misuse of the word "nauseous" is one of my top pet peeves!

BlairWaldorf · October 2008

manda_mullins:
This might be wrong, but an English prof. of mine once told us that fukc used to be an abbreviation that meant "for unholy carnal knowledge" that was put on signs when women were put in the stocks for adultery.

Nope, it's for Fornicating Under Consent of the King.

Meaning having sex under the consent of the king for specific procreation.

manda_mullins · October 2008

DAMN that lying professor lol.

Hi725 · October 2008

https://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/.asp

Yes, I'm bored.

BlairWaldorf · October 2008

manda_mullins:
DAMN that lying professor lol.

Oh, snap! Snopes says we're both wrong.

manda_mullins · October 2008

Well shit. I got my edumacation for the day!

jenber77 · October 2008

Annie_1208:
Since when did words and their correct definitions "lose ground" because they are widely used improperly?

Sadly, this happens all the time. Of course I can't think of any examples right now, but I'm a copy editor and I come across these things regularly.

As for nauseous, my Oxford English dictionary actually lists "affected with nausea, sick" as the number one definition. It says, "Objections to the use of nauseous in this sense on the grounds that nauseated should be used instead are ill-founded. This is in fact by far the most common sense of nauseous."

Majority rules, I guess.