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A question/feel sick
Message from sim13 posted on 18-01-2013 at 11:14:04 (D | E | F)
Hello,

Could you tell me please which one is better to say if you feel bad at work and won't say what you have exactly.
feel sick or feel ill or...
Thanks for answering.

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Edited by lucile83 on 18-01-2013 21:14

Re: A question/feel sick from dolfine56, posted on 18-01-2013 at 11:32:09 (D | E)
Hello,
I think "feel sick" is o.k
see you.

Re: A question/feel sick from sim13, posted on 18-01-2013 at 11:40:07 (D | E)
Thanks

Re: A question/feel sick from sherry48, posted on 18-01-2013 at 13:35:32 (D | E)
Hello.
Most people say, I'm feeling sick, or I'm not feeling well. Sherry

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Edited by sherry48 on 18-01-2013 13:45

Re: A question/feel sick from rajankila, posted on 18-01-2013 at 13:40:32 (D | E)
You can say, “I don’t feel well”.

Re: A question/feel sick from gerondif, posted on 18-01-2013 at 14:33:31 (D | E)
Hello,
I used to learn that "you feel sick" when you feel like throwing up because you have eaten something bad or you have seen something too violent for you or disgusting for you. "You are ill" was used for real illnesses, flu, colds, etc.
I always found it funny as a Frenchman to read in English newspapers that after being shot at, a man was "seriously ill" in hospital, a bit like that humorous expression in westerns: "He died of a lead intoxication....."

I would say:

I am not feeling well,
I am poorly off,
I feel sick
I have the impression I'm gonna be (I am going to be) sick.
I feel ill.
I am exhausted /knackered (colloquial)

Re: A question/feel sick from sim13, posted on 18-01-2013 at 15:18:07 (D | E)
Hi, thanks a lot.

could somebody give me an example for such a situation for "out of the office" email?
Thanks in advance.

Re: A question/feel sick from stephanieanna, posted on 25-01-2013 at 10:57:38 (D | E)
Hello,

In American English, most people use "feeling sick" for everything.
"Ill" is not often used. It's true it can mean many things: having an illness, feeling nauseated, being disgusted, etc.

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Edited by lucile83 on 25-01-2013 12:20

Re: A question/feel sick from farzaneh12, posted on 01-02-2013 at 01:22:34 (D | E)
hi..thanks for your ideas.
I read them and I will use them...

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Edited by lucile83 on 01-02-2013 07:29

Re: A question/feel sick from lemagemasque, posted on 01-02-2013 at 19:00:42 (D | E)
Hello!

In , students can also mean "cool" by saying "sick".
Link

Re: A question/feel sick from gerondif, posted on 01-02-2013 at 19:06:34 (D | E)
Hello,
interesting link ! When I was in the USA, in the 80's, "That's sick!" meant "that's disgusting!" "that's weird!"

Re: A question/feel sick from lemagemasque, posted on 02-02-2013 at 17:02:07 (D | E)
Hello gerondif,

I didn't know that meaning.
Sick = cool = weird/disgusting
Not exactly the same meaning, eh?

Re: A question/feel sick from sherry48, posted on 02-02-2013 at 17:08:10 (D | E)
Hello.
Yes, each new generation changes the meaning of some slang words.
Here's a link that confirms you are both correct.
Link

Sherry

Re: A question/feel sick from lemagemasque, posted on 02-02-2013 at 17:14:56 (D | E)
Hello sherry,

Thank you for the link!
So, sick/cool is also , isn't it?
See you!

Re: A question/feel sick from kadzona, posted on 18-02-2013 at 21:43:50 (D | E)
Hello: As a native English speaker, if I say "I feel sick" it really means "I (think I) am going to vomit."

When I was working, full-time, if I had to claim illness as a reason to stop working and go home, I would say something like "I really don't feel (at all) well . . . " or "I'm not (at all) well . . . "

"I feel ill" doesn't roll off the tongue of this speaker: it's not very common amongst native British English speakers.

Oh, and the word "amongst" (above) is highlighted, by this message-system, as being a spelling error. It isn't.

Re: A question/feel sick from notrepere, posted on 18-02-2013 at 22:39:41 (D | E)
Hello

Look at the way you spelt among. That's sick! In , spelt is a type of flour from the wheat family.

Re: A question/feel sick from kadzona, posted on 26-02-2013 at 22:01:14 (D | E)
Good evening, notrepere. My problem with "amongst" being underlined as a spelling error was, and is, that the on-site Vérificateur d'orthographe - anglais britannique - insists that "amongst" is an error. "Amongst" is an older form of "among" and is more commonly used in Britain than in the USA, I gather.

As for spelt/spelled - they both work, equally, in as the past tense and past participle of the verb "to spell", where this means to form words letter by letter or (with OUT) to make clear.

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