Steven Brust writes:
So, you want to completely swap the two meanings? I suppose that would
give us something, but, hitherto, it has not happened. And if it did, it
would be really ugly. "How are you today?" "I shouldn't have eaten the
dog, because I'm really nauseating." No, I don't think I like that.
We could banish "nauseous" and stick with "nauseating" and
"nauseated". That's what i do, in order to avoid pedants.
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{Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to
Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the
trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith
in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
- Garry Trudeau