Are those the same? Or is there any difference?
*just wondering*
*just wondering*
I typically use ill to mean not feeling well, possibly enough to not go to work, etc. but not necessarily meaning I am "sick" with a cold or the flu and might be contagious. Ill is a more general feeling of not-well-being while sick is actually sick with some kind of germ.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
/language: Being sick and being ill
- 08/04/2010 05:14:36 PM
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Not too much, generally.
- 08/04/2010 05:19:37 PM
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*NM*
No, they are not the same
- 08/04/2010 08:02:00 PM
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AN illness is specific; BEING ill is not, I believe; as adjectives I belive "sick" and "ill" equal.
- 09/04/2010 03:41:10 AM
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I typically use them in the following way.
- 09/04/2010 07:28:46 AM
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UK says "ill" for unwell and "be sick" for "to vomit". US says "sick" for "unwell".
- 09/04/2010 08:44:02 AM
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*NM*
Uh... If someone says they're going to "be sick" in the US, believe me, we interpret it like you do. *NM*
- 09/04/2010 06:30:40 PM
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