October 26, 2007
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nauseous vs. nauseating - what's correct??
(from dictionary.com)
Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean "causing nausea" and that it is incorrect to use it to mean "affected with nausea," as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean "feeling sick," it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its "correct" sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.
Comments (10)
hey you, it's susanjane...i use the canon rebel xti. i love it.
that was kinda random...
oh..hehe. i was updating my facebook and was using the word. kyu always says i use the wrong word, so i had to check.
u sound bored
so am I right?
Nauseating refers to something that causes nausea, whereas with nauseous you already feel barfy :p
If you feel sick and gross you would say "I feel nauseated" because you feel sick by something that causes nausea.
The thing that makes you sick, like a smelly fart by Kyu, you would refer to as "your fart is nauseous" because it causes nausea.
If you were to say "I'm nauseous" that means that you are the cause of people's nausea, i.e. you are very smelly.
make sense?
are you preggers? =)
nooo...not pregnant.
yeah, it's for my parents. It's going to be awesome! Thanks for the comment...
I use a Canon Rebel XT. It has it's limitations, but it's been good to me for the last 3 years!
Stop by often.
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