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		helmholtz on Nov 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The melancholy decline of the semicolon I wish using the word "Melancholic" was more of a thing, rather than the pedestrian and, in my firm belief, incorrect, "Melancholy" I was feeling Melancholic, not melancholy. I know Oxford disagrees and fuck them too. Melancholy already is a perfectly nice noun.

b3morales on Nov 27, 2021 [–]

"Feel X" is perfectly valid for X either noun or adjective:

I feel sadness/I feel sad.

I feel joy/I feel joyful.

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