Feeling Badly About This...

In My Humble Opinion
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I hate it when someone says they are “feeling badly” or asks me if I’m “feeling badly”. My girlfriend does it so I can’t say “stupid fucking morons”, I guess, but seriously folks…

I feel bad, you feel bad, we all feel bad sometimes, and I feel bad especially often when someone says they feel badly instead of saying that they feel bad.

Possibly they DO feel badly, although I wasn’t aware that it took much skill. Maybe they have neural pathway troubles. More likely, though, they speak badly, instead, which makes me feel bad.

It’s a special case adjective, folks. It is not an adverb. You are not explaining the manner in which you feel. The word “feel” in this context works more like a form of “be” such as “am”, rather than, let’s say, “perform”. You perform badly, which makes you feel bad.

People who say “I was feeling badly yesterday” sound as pretentiously wrong as people who say “They had a party for Michelle and I” or even “Go hollow out the window for your brother”. Drives me batshit.

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Wait, are you miffed that people want you to feel better, that they use poor grammar, or both?

It’s ok, don’t feel bad… :wink:

Esprix

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Okay, I’m a Colombian emerald miner, one of those poor people who camp out below the actual mine and scrabble through the tailings for overlooked emeralds. My job involves feeling around in the mud–sometimes if I’m having a bad day, and can’t seem to score anything, not really focussed on the job, I’m “feeling badly”.

Well? Whaddaya think? Huh? Huh?

Or how about this–I’m an “Empath for Hire”, people plug in and pay me to have good feelings for them, $20 for 5 minutes, but some days I’m just “feeling badly”. The boss says, “What’s up? You’re feeling badly today. Woman trouble?”

(And shouldn’t that be “batshitly”?)

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Grammar gripes sound like they should be in IMHO. Off ye go.

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