![]() accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, having regard to the purposes for which they are processed, are erased or rectified without delay Į. adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed ĭ. collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes Ĭ. processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals ī. The Business is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities under the GDPR.Īrticle 5 of the GDPR requires that personal data shall beĪ. Register of Systems means a register of all systems or contexts in which personal data is processed by the Business. GDPR means the General Data Protection Regulation. A few of the most popular are effect and affect, lay and lie, I and me, and which and that. Other confusing word pairs are discussed elsewhere on this site. But in some high-stakes situations (the cover letter for a job application or a pitch to a new client, for example), it’s wise to keep in mind that people’s definitions of nauseous differ. In most situations, such a response would be inconsequential. If you choose, however, to use nauseous to mean “experiencing nausea,” be aware that although the dictionaries may be on your side, some people in your audience may misunderstand you or (wrongly) believe you have made an error in usage. So what do we advise? Perhaps the best idea is to get ahead of the curve and simply avoid the word nauseous altogether: use nauseated to mean “experiencing nausea” and nauseating to mean “causing nausea.” The usage note in Webster’s points out that the word nauseous actually “appears to be losing ground” to the words nauseated and nauseating, which have clearly different meanings. The bottom line is that we have two words that leave no room for ambiguity: nauseated and nauseating. In the third sentence above, for example, we understand clearly that a joke cannot “feel queasy.” A joke, however, can be in such poor taste that it makes listeners feel ill it can be, therefore, nauseous.īut most people would use the word nauseating in such cases, not nauseous. Nauseous Isn’t NecessaryĪlthough many people want to use nauseous to mean both “making others ill” and “being ill,” no one would use nauseated in both senses. However, in a delightfully humorous usage discussion (seriously: who knew dictionary writers had such a sense of humor?), Webster’s goes on to explain that the use of nauseous to mean “to feel ill” goes back as far as the mid-nineteenth century. Webster’s goes on to defend the second use of nauseous solely on the basis of overwhelming “current use.” The second definition is “affected with nausea or disgust” in this sense, the word is synonymous with nauseated. The first definition is “causing nausea or disgust” in this sense, the word is synonymous with nauseating. One well-respected source, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, gives two definitions for nauseous. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language traces the history of its waning insistence that nauseous means “causing nausea.” What Language Historians Actually Know about Nauseousĭictionaries (and descriptive linguists), however, tell us that there are many instances throughout history-and especially in common usage today-in which people have used nauseous to mean “experiencing nausea.” ![]() ![]() ![]() That opinion has been supported in the past even by some descriptivists (people who describe how people actually use a word rather than prescribe how it should be used, such as the compilers of dictionaries). Nauseated, they argue, is the better choice because the pregnant woman herself feels ill she does not make others feel nauseated. They would say, then, that in sentence 1, nauseous is incorrect. ![]() Many prescriptivists (people who set forth rules for usage, such as the writers of style guides) distinguish carefully between the words nauseated and nauseous, arguing that to be nauseous means “to evoke nausea in someone else.” What the Grammar Police Believe about Nauseous
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