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.
I don't know why, but using "disrespected" instead of "disrespectful" absolutely drives me nuts! "He was disrespecting me" sounds so, I don't know, wrong to me. I think it should be "He was disrespectful to me", it just sounds better. IMHO..
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.[/QUOT
I work at an elementary school. Last year we had two new teachers who would fill out and send a nurse pass with their students stating what the complaint was. There were so many grammatical errors that I felt embarrassed for the school. If I were a parent and saw that, I'd have been very upset!
I don't consider myself a member of the grammar police, but when people write/talk about, You and I or Me and you, it sounds confusing...especially when teenagers do it.
I don't consider myself a member of the grammar police, but when people write/talk about, You and I or Me and you, it sounds confusing...especially when teenagers do it.
I like this link. I never really have trouble with "you and I are going to the store." I do sometimes get "why don't you come with you and me" wrong. I guess "you and I" is so engrained that, even in the objective form, "you and me" just doesn't sound quite right even though it is.
I like this link. I never really have trouble with "you and I are going to the store." I do sometimes get "why don't you come with you and me" wrong. I guess "you and I" is so engrained that, even in the objective form, "you and me" just doesn't sound quite right even though it is.
Just drop the "you" if you can't remember you & me vs. you & I. You wouldn't say "Me is going to the store" or "come with I," right? :)
Or the now popular term '"be like" instead of using a correct form like "said" or asked". Or others using the term I instead of me. Just two of my pet peeves. I love to read and feel like I should have been and editor.
As grammar goes down the toilet, it seems to take thoughtful, concise speech with it. I'm always amazed by the numbers of good fiction writers we produce, but the educational product in nursing has really slipped. We still have colleges that educate, but most places just exist to "train" and graduate. Me and my (fill in the blank) is my pet peeve and I expect only a handful of students to have the curiosity to distinguish between nauseous and nauseated. However, if anyone here is curious about English usage, Dictionary.Com is a good place to start. You can sign up for the word of the day and they will also send you an e-mail weekly about usage.
mc3, ASN, RN
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I don't know why, but using "disrespected" instead of "disrespectful" absolutely drives me nuts! "He was disrespecting me" sounds so, I don't know, wrong to me. I think it should be "He was disrespectful to me", it just sounds better. IMHO..
mc3