Thread of my semantic pet hates that if I always pointed out would lose me friends. Join in! First up: I hate when people say "tenant", meaning a resident or occupier, when the person means "tenet", meaning a foundation stone of a belief
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Nauseated != nauseous
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Casually they've been conflated so thoroughly that they now functionally/descriptively mean the same thing, but "nauseous" really means "causing nausea" and "nauseated" is feeling nauseous (I have reached complete semantic satiation on the word "nausea" now)
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So you might feel nauseated by a nauseous sight
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