grammar bit

<email deleted> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:40:33 +0100, <Someone>
> <email deleted> wrote:
>
> >You begin praying to Anu. You are surrounded by a shimmering light.
> >You finish your prayer. You feel that Anu is well-pleased.
> >Your stomach feels content.
> >You are feeling mildly nauseous.
>
> Huh.
>
> sh-2.03$ grep nauseous *.c
> pline.c:        if (Vomiting)           Strcat(info, ", nauseated"); /*
> !"nauseous" */
> potion.c:           if(talk) You_feel("much less nauseous now.");
> timeout.c:      "are feeling mildly nauseous.",         /* 14 */
>
> Well, pline.c has it right.  Nauseated means feeling sick.  Nauseous
> means sickening to contemplate.

Second opinion (dictionary.com):
> Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is
> properly used only to mean causing nausea and that it is
> incorrect to use it to mean affected with nausea, as in Roller
> coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is
> preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88
> percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence
> The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and
> nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence
> to show that nauseous is widely used to mean feeling sick, it
> appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it
> is considered incorrect. In its correct sense it is being
> supplanted by nauseating.

diff --git a/src/potion.c b/src/potion.c
index d6a4c3896b502f27faf1a09b0b2a37603aab1fe6..94e98aa482f1523b3b24fd6907374317f7e4e671 100644 (file)
--- a/src/potion.c
+++ b/src/potion.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ boolean talk;
        long old = Vomiting;
 
        if(!xtime && old)
-           if(talk) You_feel("much less nauseous now.");
+           if(talk) You_feel("much less nauseated now.");
 
        set_itimeout(&Vomiting, xtime);
 }

diff --git a/src/timeout.c b/src/timeout.c
index 1b4df23cb7d44c948372393dbbd872f17e9dce37..085a2722291d8666e952fa1869613a18307dce23 100644 (file)
--- a/src/timeout.c
+++ b/src/timeout.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ stoned_dialogue()
 
 /* He is getting sicker and sicker prior to vomiting */
 static NEARDATA const char * const vomiting_texts[] = {
-       "are feeling mildly nauseous.",         /* 14 */
+       "are feeling mildly nauseated.",        /* 14 */
        "feel slightly confused.",              /* 11 */
        "can't seem to think straight.",        /* 8 */
        "feel incredibly sick.",                /* 5 */