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Feels like someone with 'sea-legs', nautical adapted ? "

A thing is nauseous that causes disgust - it sickens you. (So then, that which is nauteous would make you seasick?)

Anyway, to be nauseous is to cause those around you to become nauseated, for whatever reason.

May I also say, that earlier post on hypallage was splendid - I feel like I'm at summer camp for pedants.

Or 'nerve-wracking', which is what I'd say...

And if the employee is employed by the employer, why isn't the escapee the prison?

As for ending sentences with prepositions, it reminds me of a story. One night, a mother goes to her child's bedroom upstairs to read him a goodnight story. As he doesn't like the book, he tells her: 'What did you bring that book I don't like to be read to out of up for?'

This from Merriam Webster:
"Main Entry: nau·seous
Pronunciation: 'no-sh&s, 'no-zE-&s
Function: adjective
1 : causing nausea or disgust : NAUSEATING
2 : affected with nausea or disgust
- nau·seous·ly adverb
- nau·seous·ness noun
usage Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous in sense 2."

The OED gives the same two meanings, but reverses the order.

I see I have received a right pedanticking. (sigh) now it seems I have to apologize to all those nauseating people.

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It's enough to make you sick, isn't it?

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Gaaaaaaa! That one is so irritating and happens all the time. It can't be just confusing the two words as I've never seen it done in reverse.

az

You mean done in reverse as in, 'I'm wearing my loser pants today'? I haven't seen it done that way either, but it would at least be more funny than annoying.

I know! It is always done with mistaking loose for lose, not the other way round.

As in - 'I am loosing my grip on reality'.

Why???

az

"People on the internet who spell "lose" as "loose". "

The frustrating thing is that, after a while of seeing it so much, you actually have to think twice when you're writing it to make sure you're spelling it right.

I was thinking about something today. The plural of 'sending off' is obviously 'sendings off'. But if you wanted to talk about the effect OF the sendings off would you makes the 'sendings' possessive as in:

The sending's off effects silenced the crowd

or

The sendings' off effects silenced the crowd?

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Aaargh

A typo and not a grammatical error, I must point out

When I say it in my head, "The sendings' off effects silenced the crowd" seems to be the right one, but I'm not sure.
Speaking of bad spelling, how about 'wot' and 'shure'?

I say, don't you know what's wot, wot?

Anticlimax (Asterix in Britain).

'Nerve-wracking' here also, Della.

TRiG.

Go here, all ye pedants: A12708551

Go to this great land and flourish!

ALthough it's kind of rubbish and we don't even have or know how to make a badge...

It is actually, if it is more than one sending off having an effect on the crowd, "the sendings off affect the enitre crowd." No apostrophe necessary, and therefore no problem.

What kind of crowd is an "enitre" crowd? No wonder they get excited by bad grammar, they sound distinctly weird to me.