Not a prescriptivist but I do squirm about these things as a writer, who is likely to have their work edited by someone else I don't WANT somebody changing my em-dashes into hyphens, I don't WANT them changing "nauseated" into "nauseous", I don't WANT punctuation inside quoteshttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1304188911233699840 …
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The "nauseous" thing is interesting because it's a kind of hyperpedantry A lot of people were all "checkmate" when they went and looked and the oldest reference in print of the word "nauseous" indeed has it mean "someone feeling nausea" But so what
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That was a one-off reference from before "nauseous" was a "real word", the next use of it comes decades later For most of the word's history the "rule" clearly was "nauseous = causing nausea, nauseated = experiencing nausea", by analogy with "poisonous" vs "poisoned"
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