Nauseous and Nauseating

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:47 am

I am so sick of hearing about how someone was SOOOO nauseous.
It is so obnoxious.
If someone is noxious, are they nauseating to others?

nauÂ·seous Pronunciation (nÃ´shs, -z-s)
adj.
1. Causing nausea; sickening: "the most nauseous offal fit for the gods" (John Fowles).
2. Usage Problem Affected with nausea.

nauseousÂ·ly adv.
nauseousÂ·ness n.
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.

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:45 am

Well let me aks you a question.
How much water does it take to drowned a man?
Sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet... I'm gonna go get an expresso.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:51 am

If I barf right now, would I be nauseating to those around me?
There you go, then.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:51 am

Captain Goddammit wrote:Well let me aks you a question.
How much water does it take to drowned a man?
Sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet... I'm gonna go get an expresso.

make sure your coffee's not from an alunimum machine

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:33 pm

Dougly: Yer barf would be nauseating to some...

Post by **Sham** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 12:55 pm

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Have a nice day!

Trishntek · Post by **Trishntek** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:31 pm

Now that is nauseating.

People who talk about it aren't nauseating unless they speak in a nauseating matter which triggers nausea in the nauseatingly sensitive ears of the nauseated listener.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:34 pm

If you were in NASA, and rode in the Vomit Comet for astronaut preparation, you could be in NAUSEA instead.

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:53 pm

You all make me sick.

Post by **Sham** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:02 pm

Dr. Pyro wrote:You all make me sick.

My job here is done!

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:17 pm

Shambala wrote:
Dr. Pyro wrote:You all make me sick.
My job here is done!

not til you wipe up, mister!!

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 7:21 pm

I hate the word meal. Don't know why... is similar to listening to someone chew their food loudly. Eggplants and mushrooms too...hate em!

Trishntek · Post by **Trishntek** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:35 pm

Meal is kinda like what those radishes are when they are "mealy" in the middle. Or like chewing on saw dust or how about Playa dusted oatMEAL. MMMMmmmmmm tasteeeee!

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:38 am

Chocolate and mint! I don't know why, but it makes me

Post by **Sham** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:55 am

This makes me want to hurl......