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HindaRochel

Tue, Apr 24 2012, 12:19 am

Thank you for posting Sherri.
I agree with the article. Language purism is basically language death. Language grows with usage, and incorrect or application of words in ways they weren't originally considered proper or correct.

frimamom

Fri, Sep 05 2014, 11:39 am

gp2.0 wrote:

Isn't nauseous a made up word too, the correct word being 'nauseated'?

http://phrogz.net/nauseous

Barbara

Fri, Sep 05 2014, 11:51 am

frimamom wrote:

http://phrogz.net/nauseous

From Dictionary.com

Quote:

NAUSEOUS
adjective
1.
affected with nausea; nauseated :
to feel nauseous.
2.
causing nausea; sickening; nauseating.
3.
disgusting; loathsome:
a nauseous display of greed.

Usage note
The two literal senses of nauseous, “causing nausea” ( a nauseous smell) and “affected with nausea” ( to feel nauseous), appear in English at almost the same time in the early 17th century, and both senses are in standard use at the present time. Nauseous is more common than nauseated in the sense “affected with nausea,” despite recent objections by those who imagine the sense to be new. In the sense “causing nausea,” either literally or figuratively, nauseating has become more common than nauseous : a nauseating smell.

Frumdoc

Fri, Sep 05 2014, 12:44 pm

In medical terminology, nauseous means to cause nausea, so the smell was nauseous, while nauseated means to be affected by nausea.

It is widely misused, to the point where most people don't even know they mean different things, and the meaning has merged to the point where it is no longer considered grammatically incorrect to use nauseous to describe feeling nauseated, even though this use of the term makes me feel entirely sick. Wink

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seeker

Fri, Sep 05 2014, 12:55 pm

Eventually, the "colloquial corruptions" tend to become mainstream enough to be officially acceptable, and then the stodgy old language police types can be properly embarrassed when a small-minded colloquial bumpkin points out to them that the phrase/spelling/definition they used is indeed in the dictionary.

I know because it happened to me, back when I used to be a language police type. Now I've mellowed on the policing but many usages continue to grate on my ears.

imasoftov

Sat, Sep 06 2014, 5:53 pm

Emotional

Mon, Sep 08 2014, 3:58 pm

And lemme add another one:
The expression is "should have" not "should of"...

Frumdoc

Mon, Sep 08 2014, 6:17 pm

Emotional wrote:

And lemme add another one:
The expression is "should have" not "should of"...

And let me, rather than lemme.

We are not lemmings. Tongue Out

Emotional

Mon, Sep 08 2014, 6:34 pm

Frumdoc wrote:

And let me, rather than lemme.

We are not lemmings. Tongue Out

I know. I was thinking of that afterward. I could have edited my post but I was too lazy. Mr. Green

penguin

Mon, Sep 08 2014, 6:38 pm

Frumdoc wrote:
And let me, rather than lemme.

We are not lemmings. Razz

I know. I was thinking of that afterward. I could have edited my post but I was too lazy. Mr. Green

I thought you did it on purpose. Or tongue in cheek. If I have the correct expression.

Frumdoc

Mon, Sep 08 2014, 7:46 pm

penguin wrote:

So did I, but someone had to be the first to pick up on it!

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