Board 8 > Why do people correct you when you say "I don't feel good?"

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So you're somewhere. Your stomach starts to bother you. Your head throbs. And so you feel it's time to inform your current company of your physical well-being in case you should suddenly, y'know, throw up on their shoes or something. "Um, hey guys? I don't feel so good..."

And somebody looks down their nose at you -- while you're already feeling miserable no less -- and says, "You don't feel well."

"Wha? Huh? No, I have a stomachache. My head hurts. I--"

"The correct way to say it is 'I don't feel well.'"


OK, so thanks for that. Not only did I totally not need that at that exact point in time, but secondly, you're wrong. It's correct to say "I don't feel good."

Good describes your emotions, your mental position on something.
Well describes, objectively, how something is or how it was performed.

So think about it...when everything's awesome around you, you're happy, life is just smiles and rainbows...do you say "I feel well" or "I feel good?"

I knew that you would.

So when you add the word not, that means the opposite. If things aren't going your way, and you're feeling rotten, and your dog died, and everything just sucks...do you feel "not good" or "not well" then?

"Well" can also describe physical health.

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"well" in this case doesn't refer to the adverb that describes how successfully you are "feeling" but instead the adjective that means "healthy" or something like that.

So it's not wrong, but neither is "good" so it's still annoying I guess.

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or a special pair of boots that have magnets on the bottom so you can do some things that have never been possible before.

What's more annoying is that people actually care about something like this.

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This is a well topic

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Not as bad as people who try to be grammar nazis but don't actually know the grammar
Like changing "I feel bad" to "I feel badly"

my response is "Oh, I think I got confused about word choice on account of the fact that I f***ing feel like s*** right now and I'm extremely sick, which clearly is less important than how I've described it to you..."

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I would say use depending on situation.

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So is the person who told you that on B8 or did I miss something here?

I thought what people usually correct is "I'm doing good" or "It went good". "I don't feel good" shouldn't be incorrect.

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pjbasis posted...
So is the person who told you that on B8 or did I miss something here?

Nah. Talking about every time it happens IRL.


paperwarior, I've never heard your variant before. It's always been contested on "I don't feel ___" for me.

If you use "good" like that, you deserve to be sick. Disgusting...

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