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^ yeah, and seeing the definition of the word from dictionary.com, I have to agree with Fjones that that site is useless!

Is there any word they don't define by using a variation of the exact same word?? LOL.
 
eon_blue said:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous

Merriam-Webster has almost the same two definitions, only the numbers are reversed heh.

I'm just being nit-picky now.

How about: "I fear I've become afflicted with a bout of nauseousness"? ;)
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I say that about dictionary.com because of the peeve fjones had the other day by defining chemical using the word chemical. It just seems they do it with every word.
 
Merriam Webster is useless also.

"Nauseous
–adjective
1. affected with nausea; nauseated: to feel nauseous.
2. causing nausea; sickening; nauseating.
3. disgusting; loathsome: a nauseous display of greed. "

This is an incorrect definition. Nauseous means inducing sickness, not feeling sick. The word for feeling sick is "nauseated." We discussed this a while back in this thread. A snake is poisonOUS. The person afflicted by a snake bite is poisonED.

It works the same way with nauseous and nauseated.
 
^ In living languages definitions, connotations and usage change to quickly for lexicographers and grammarians to keep up. In lexicography I think Fjones is proscriptionist which is a rather hopeless position. I'm descriptionist which is nearly as hopeless if not more so. Descriptionists hope to get a sense of a changing, mutable language whose very nature and rules are fluid. A proscriptive approach tries to impose static rules on a changing dynamic process.

The American Heritage dictionary was founded to be proscriptive. They've given up their proscriptive roots but their usage panel is a concession to their proscriptive origin. I have actually bothered members of the usage panel and editors on occasion. Their emails back very politely caused me to know they have given far more consideration to these matters than I likely ever will. I'd respectfully suggest that if one's pet peeve is language and usage Bluelight isn't one's ideal battlefield. Here any mutation of language tends to be pretty OK. I expect it to be a while before butthurt or postwhore make it into dictionaries. When those words do make it the cause will be by descriptionists editors pushing for their inclusion.

My peeve: thinking living languages have set rules and definitions that are static. I'm only a little peeved though. It is everybody's language and everybody's choice as to what should be observed or ignored. If some one really wants to they could push to go back to the usage common in Shakespeare's time.
 
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i really hate when someone doesn't acknowledge you
(mostly online)

if i send them something i at least want an "ok" post back so its not like im ignored

i ask my brother a simple question and i get no reply
not even and alright

like dude why be so rude?
 
When upscale shopping areas will make "fancy stopsigns." Like have a square piece of wood, with an imprint of a stop-sign in the middle. So when you're appraching it from an angle other than dead-on, you have no idea that it's a stop sign and not a good 'ol rectangle asking something else.

I alomost had an accident over this tonight.
 
What the FUCK?

Can you post a picture of this? What a terrible idea. The driving manuals make it very clear in the states I have lived in that all stop signs are octagonal and all octagonal signs are stop signd.
 
I missed that.

Pet peeve -- people who don't read things carefully and then miss relevant information. ;)

Actually, my real pet peeve tonight is online poker players. Man, I rally hate online poker players. :X:X:X These people are the most illogical, moronic, delusional and stupid people I have ever encountered. I wish I could push a button that would cause a large rubber hammer to rise out of their keyboards and strike them in the face when they pollute the chat box with their pathetic attempts at wit and wisdom.

Merely having to interact with these complete idiots tries my patience and fills me with contempt. It boggles my mind that people who are so stupid actually decide to play a game of skill and wager money on it. I could go on at length with examples of their stupidity, but it isn't necessary. I just hate the lot of them so much.
 
The spell checker I downloadd and use for this site (IESpell) must somehow have been invented before the internet itself was, because it does nto recognize "online" as a word and keeps trying to change it to "on line."

This free spell checker isn't worth what I paid for it.
 
Fjones how can you not like the spellcheker!!!!!

its saved me so many times!
hahahahha
you do have to watch what its changing your "misspellings" though because as you said it can try and mess you up sometimes.
 
Thizzerfershizzer said:
i really hate when someone doesn't acknowledge you
(mostly online)

if i send them something i at least want an "ok" post back so its not like im ignored

i ask my brother a simple question and i get no reply
not even and alright

like dude why be so rude?
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I do this.... usually not meaning to be rude.

Usually it's because I don't know how to respond, it's going to take me a long time to respond, or I forgot about the message. :\

Oh, and I too hate the fucking spellchecker, it makes my life more difficult than easy. :p
 
People who pretend to be or even worse think they are something they so obviously are not.
 
mrs_mia_wallace said:
When people ask you, are you ok, do you want to talk? And you say yes, and two minutes into talking about your situation they interrupt you and begin talking about their own...

Don't ask me if I need to talk if you're the one who clearly needs to :p
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True! Or people who only, ONLY talk about themselves. They go on and on and on and they never ever even ask anything about you. Self centered twats.
 
Fjones said:
The spell checker I downloadd and use for this site (IESpell) must somehow have been invented before the internet itself was, because it does nto recognize "online" as a word and keeps trying to change it to "on line."

This free spell checker isn't worth what I paid for it.
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You should stop using Internet Explorer and use Firefox instead. It has automatic spell-check and recognizes online. :)
 
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