Did you know that by saying you are nauseous, you are saying that you are causing nausea? Chemicals are nauseous and rollercoasters are nauseous, but you are not. … Well, I’m sure we can all be nauseous, but no one wants to be around us at those times.
If you are feeling sick from chemicals or rollercoasters, you are nauseated. I know… everyone says “nauseous,” but it’s poor usage.
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10 June 2011 at 2:31 am
I read a self-published e-book lately where the character was nauseous and I was nauseated by the lack of proper grammar, when I checked a dictionary and found that nauseous can now be used instead of nauseated. Not because it means the smae thing, but because so many people fail to distinguish between them that THEY [whoever they might be] concluded in their wisdom that general stupidity may be a good reason to change the meaning of words.
I’m still nauseated about this nauseous abuse of etymology.