Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
Words are a completely different form of expression. The word P-E-N-I-S is an entirely different form of communication than a photograph of the same thing. H
If, in English, we speak words, the French speak thoughts.
