If you really want to be correct, you will use nauseated, not nauseous, when describing the state of being afflicted with nausea. Nauseous, on the other hand, is really supposed to be used to describe something or someone that causes nausea.
We nurses can do a lot to turn around the deplorable trend amongst the common populace to use these words incorrectly. We deal with nauseated people on a daily basis. We can gently educate the public by being role models for proper usage!
(nauseous-correct usage): The smell of rotten eggs is nauseous.
(nauseated-correct usage): The smell of rotten eggs makes me nauseated.
Oops that's was supposed to be a response to the comment listing "alert and orientated" as a pet peeve. One of mine is when people say "exact same". It's redundant to use "exact".
And I will never be able to remember when to use "lay" vs "lie." I always chart, "Pt laying in bed resting quietly," which is wrong, according to that comic strip. And I finally thought I had figured it out!!
I had someone tell me once that chickens lay, people lie. Lol
I was taught many years ago that "objects lay, people lie." So, I never write that a patient was laying in bed; I always use "patient lying in bed," instead.
I don't totally blame the nurses, doctors, etc. that speak ungrammatically, but rather the education systems that allowed them to graduate from grade to grade in elementary school. It's just kind of annoying to be paying $10,400 per annum in school taxes and this is the product! And other people paid a university a lot of tuition money and they still come out sounding like they were never exposed to an English class. Wouldn't bother me so much if public educations were free to the taxpayer. Okay - enough ****** off taxpayer.
What makes my teeth grind is "patient received" - as if the patient were projected over my head like a football and somehow I caught it.
I think language should evolve. People from different regions have colloquialism's that may not be "good" grammar.
What gets to me is when I see in books and even on close captioning on TV is "gonna," meaning "going to."
I know I may say it in casual conversation, ( I try to catch myself and say "going to"). But to see it written in books and closed captioning.....that is too much!
RNMA15
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yes, that too! LOL