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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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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So like you can use whatever word you want obviously but you can't tell someone the logic they like better is "wrong" based on just looking for what the oldest possible source said
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