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   Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 04:08:44 JST Annika Backstrom

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   • Ben Ramsey

   @ramsey I *get it* but at the same time, it's nice when words have meaning (see also: literally vs. figuratively, biweekly vs. semiweekly)

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     Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 04:08:46 JST Ben Ramsey

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     I came across this line in a ProPublica article, and my pedantic meter exploded. That’s when I discovered that the dictionaries have been updated.

     “For weeks, he’d been nauseous and had trouble eating.”

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     Ben Ramsey (ramsey@phpc.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 04:08:47 JST Ben Ramsey

     TIL dictionaries now define “nauseous” and “nauseated” as meaning the same thing, since it has become more common in everyday speech to use “nauseous” to describe when one is feeling sick, rather than “nauseated.”