Are You Nauseous? Or Are You Nauseated By Nauseating People?

I WAS NAUSEOUS AT WORK TODAY! As the day wore on others became increasingly nauseated by my nauseating personality. So what am I saying? Was I sick? Or did I make someone else ill? Actually the whole mess is nauseating.  It seems we can't spell it, nor pronounce it nor understand how to use it properly.  Am I referring to a recent speech by a boondoggler turned crown prince? Nope. We really don't know how to use the language we claim as our own.

STOP MISUSING THE WORD NAUSEOUS! It's a pet peeve! Now, you can be nauseous and be nauseated at the same time and perhaps one might be related to the other but for crying out loud make up your mind...after a refresher with a dictionary! If you are feeling sick you are nauseated. If you are making me nauseated then YOU are nauseous to me! Now when you hear someone say they are nauseous you can quip "Yes. Most of the time, but not at this moment". If you do, however, you are well on your way to becoming nauseatingly nauseous yourself.

With so many other words misused in the English language I have come to the conclusion my mother tongue is flawed. Why isn't that flaud or flod? Who's the Anglo wise-ass who decided on multiple choice vowel sounds? But that's a different story altogether.

Do you know how many times people wanted to axe me without even being mad at me. It's something they would be willing to do with someone elks. How many times have you heard, "Mr Whatever. You are wanted to the front office. You are wanted to the front office." AAARRRGGGHHH! Pat, can I buy a VERB? How about "come" to the front office?

Irregardless of the inability of many to speak the language, a question remains. Is irregardless a word? Ever use it? Is it in your personal catalog of 4 syllable words? Could it be wrong if it passed spell check without becoming irresponsible ?
It does appear in Webster's, but with a skull and crossbones across its definition. The aberration first appeared in common use at the start of the 20th century and was seen in prose around 1927.
Do you know what you are actually saying when you use it?
If your listener doesn't give you that puppy dog head tilt look followed by a puzzled expression, don't sweat it. They don't have a clue either. Regardless means without regard. The prefix ir means NOT. It's tied to the prefix in which means the same. The logic of the English language makes irregardless a double negative and therefore positive. Can make your head spin, right?

Now you may not give a rats arse about any of this word study butchery so long as the other guy or gal or both got what you said. If so stop reading and go on about your business. I'm surprised you got this far in the first place.
For the rest consider how difficult it must be to master the confusing maze that is the English language for someone new to this country whose native tongue is based on a completely different alphabet. There are some folks here whose intolerance when they hear a foreigner not speaking "American" is  a disgrace. Obviously those people have never traveled overseas. A quick trip to Korea, India or Vietnam should fix their little red wagons. But those newly arrived outlanders are not the ones screwing up the language those born and raised supposedly hold so dear.

Learn another language. There are total immersion programs available that cost little if anything and you don't even have to bring a pencil. Try your hand at Swedish, German or Italian. Expand your knowledge. But do that after you bone up with an English 101 class. We can alway use a little refresher.
Dictionaries are great too. Look up tolerance. It's one of the things found lacking in human nature. It must be nurtured....irregardless.