2021-05-28
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – B – believe & feel
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ออกเสียง believe = ‘bih-LEEV’
ออกเสียง feel = ‘FEEL’
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USAGE NOTE FOR FEEL
When the verb feel is used inthe sense "to think or believe,"
it typicallyimplies believing or having an opinion
on the basis ofemotion or intuition,
even in circumstances unsupportedby much real evidence.
Although some usage experts object,
such use is well established in English and can be traced
as far back asMiddle English.
When feel is used specificallyto express a subjective impression,
it is often used with as if, as though, or that
and followed by a full sentence:
I felt as if my world had come to an end.
He feels as though it is always raining.
I feel that things will get better now.
More informally, feel can be
used without as if/as though/that:
I feel he's guilty.
And a full sentence does not have tofollow:
I felt his answer to be impolite.
In the same sense of "to think or believe,"
an alternative phrase feel like isfound in informal or casual speech.
This use of feel like typically expresses
an opinion oremotional sentiment with a softened or tentative tone:
I feel like nothing is getting done here.
I feel like he is just too arrogant.
Though increasingly common,
use ofthe phrase feel like has been criticized as lazythinking
that ignores real evidence, while avoidingconfrontation and debate.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Usage Notes
Can You 'Feel Good'?
We certainly hope so.
Do you feel good?
We hope so, but it's also possible
that you feel well, rather than good.
A third possibility isthat
you do not distinguish between these two ways to feel.
And a fourth distinct possibility isthat,
having realized you are beginning toread yet another article
on the minutiae ofEnglish usage,
you feel something more akin to bored.
Don’t worry, we feel you (emotionally, not physically),
but someone has tonavigate the Scylla and Charybdis
of how torespond when someone asks the dread question “How are you?”
There is a century-long tradition in English
of telling people who say “I feel good”
that they should respond instead with well.
One explanation forwhy it is wrong to say that one feels good
is that good applies to morality, and not to physical well-being.
One of the most usual, and most uneducated of all daily,
indeed hourly, mistakes is “I feel good” for“I feel well.”
This is absolutely illiterate. Goodness refers tomorality, not health.
— Vogue, 1 Feb. 1923
There are some modes of expression so generally used
that they have become part of the people’s rightful speech;
but they are, and probably always will be wrong, in well-educated ears.
One of these is, “I feel good,” for “I feel well.”
“Good,” so employed, refers to moral health.
— Anne Singleton, The Washington Post, 9 Aug. 1927
Another form of opposition to feeling good
is that good iscommonly used as an adjective,
and so, the verb feel should be followed by the adverb of well.
This argumentcontains problems.
One is that well maybe an adjective, adverb, noun, verb, or interjection, and good may be both adverb or adjective (and noun).
Also, feel is a linking verb, which means
that it may bemodified with an adjective, rather than an adverb.
The admonitions not to use good
where one could use well
appear to have come about in the 19th century,
and were initially in response to people
saying they did good, rather than felt good.
”He can do it as good as any one else can,”
is sometimes said instead of,
“He can do it as well as any one else can.”
A person cannot do a thing good.
The proper word to use is well.
— Richard Bache Meade, Vulgarisms and Other Errors of Speech, 1868
The adverbial use of good isfairly old in English
(about a thousand years or so),
but in the 19th century began
to be seen asunduly colloquial, or improper.
There is still considerable evidence
of such use in modern writing (particularly in coverage of sports),
but if you want toconvince certain people
that you write good you will use well rather than good
when modifyingaction verbs (such as write).
So, just as it’s totally fine to say “I feel bad,”
it is also fine to say “I feel good.”
Unless, of course,
you are using feel asan action verb, rather than a linking one,
with the meaning of
“to handle or touch in order to examine, test, or explore some quality.”
If this is the case
you should either rephrase your sentence
or get yourself to a doctor, depending on how you feel.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Words We're Watching
'All the Feels,' All the Time
Exactly how many feels are you feeling?
Oh, Internet, how we love you so.
Who can define words when there are cat photos to gush over?
Who can concentrate on etymology when there are recaps to read?
When there are songs to stream that speak to us like no other song has spoken to us before?
When one encounters such distractions,
one can't just feel something for them
–one has to have all the feels.
I'll tell you, when I was first reading this, I wasn't sure what to do.
Because I know you, and I've read all your books,
and then here's this novel.
And it's had such big fanfare.
"George Saunders has a new novel, and I have all the feels," that sort of thing.
Kevin Larimer, Poets & Writers, March/April 2017
Yes, that sort of thing.
Here's how this epidemic of the feels started.
Feel, in this instance,is short for "feeling" or "emotion"
and traces back to a meme created in 2010
by a user on a German image site.
The image in question featured two embracing men
along with the caption, "I Know That Feel Bro."
The meme came to be used as a shorthand forexpressing empathy, particularly between strangers online.
Internet memes are noted for their playful use of disjunctive grammar–remember I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?
–so, it is possible that feel was used in place of feeling for that same reason.
Feel already sees plenty of use as a noun,
from meanings such as "sensation" (the feel of old leather)
to "a particular quality or atmosphere"
(an inn that has all the feel of a castle)
to "an intuitive knowledge of ability" (has a feel for woodworking).
But in all the feels (along with right in the feels,
whose original corresponding image
suggested an application to a specific part of the anatomy),
the word feel jumps out
because it is used in a way it's hardly ever used in any of those other senses: as a countable noun in itsplural form.
The phrases soon took on lives of their own in meme culture;
as Katy Waldman wrote in Slate,
they tap into the Internet's capacity forhaving its way with our emotions:
Feel some feels.
Along with all the feels and right in the feels,
the phrase is everywhere, especially online.
I could have picked any number of tweets
or posts to back into a discussion of feels,
but there’s something right,
I think, about siphoning from the molten geyser of emotion unleashed by the Web’s controversy du jour, a polemic animated, in fact, by the belief that our sensitivities--our feels--are clouding reason, strangling dialogue.
Katy Waldman, Slate, 29 Jan. 2015
Whether dismissive or not, now our feels are being felt all over the place:
Whether you're debating re-reading Harry Potter
or just want to take a trip down memory lane,
the quotes below will hit you right inthe feels.
Kristian Wilson, Bustle, 9 May 2017
If that tear-jerker has you feeling all the feels, just wait for this one:
The finale also includes Spencer quoting the Winnie the Pooh line,
"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?" Sob.
Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 27 May 2017
Just when you thought you couldn’t get kicked any harder in the feels,
the story inside the magazine ― featuring love letters from the likes of Rashida Jones, Gloria Steinem, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jon Meacham ― will really get you.
Jamie Feldman, The Huffington Post, 25 Oct. 2016
But rom coms like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days have a reputation for being stupid, far-fetched, and just plain bad. That's just not true!
Some are hilarious. Others punch you right in the feels.
Either way, they're real films with actual plots capable of moving you,
just like those prestige male-centric dramas everyone pretends to love.
Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2017
Only time will tell if the feels will last long enough
to warrant a new entry in the dictionary.
But for now, to quote Spencer,
how lucky are we to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?
Collins COBUILD English Usage
1. 'believe'
If you believe someone or believe what they say,
you think that what they say is true.
I don't believe you.
Don't believe anything you read in that newspaper.
If you believe that something is true, you think that it is true.
I believe some of those lakes are over a hundred feet deep.
Police believe that the fire was started deliberately.
Be Careful!
Believe is not used in the progressive.
Don't say, for example, 'I am believing you'.
You say 'I believe you'.
I believe that these findings should be presented to your readers.
2. 'don't believe'
Instead of saying that you 'believe that something is not' true,
you usually say that you don't believe that it is true.
I just don't believe that Alan had anything to do with it.
3. passive forms
You can say either that it is believed that something is true,
or that something is believed to be true.
For example, you can say
'It is believed that the building is 700 years old'
or 'The building is believed to be 700 years old'.
It is believed that two prisoners have escaped.
This is widely believed to be the tallest tree in England.
4. 'believe in'
If you believe in something, you think that it exists.
I don't believe in ghosts.
My children still believe in Father Christmas.
If you believe in an idea or policy, you think it is good or right.
We believe in freedom of speech.
Collins COBUILD English Usage
Feel is a common verb that has several meanings.
Its past tense and -ed participle is felt.
1. awareness
If you can feel something, you are aware of it
because of your sense of touch, or you are aware of it in your body.
I can feel the heat of the sun on my face.
I wonder if insects can feel pain.
Be Careful!
You usually use can in sentences like these.
You say, for example, 'I can feel a pain in my foot'.
Don't say 'I feel a pain in my foot'.
Also, don't use a progressive form.
Don't say 'I am feeling a pain in my foot'.
If you want to say that someone was aware of something in the past,
you use felt or could feel.
They felt the wind on their faces.
Through several layers of clothes I could feel his muscles.
However, if you want to say that someone
suddenly became aware of something, you must use felt.
He felt a sting on his elbow.
You can use an -ing form after felt or could feel
to show that someone was aware of something
that was continuing to take place.
He could feel the sweat pouring down his face.
You can use an infinitive without to after felt
to show that someone became aware of a single action.
She felt the boat move.
2. touching
When you feel an object,
you touch it deliberately in order to find out what it is like.
The doctor felt her pulse.
3. impressions
The way something feels is the way it seems to you
when you hold it or touch it.
The blanket felt soft.
How does it feel? Warm or cold?
It looks and feels like a normal fabric.
Be Careful!
When you use feel like this,
don't use a progressive form.
Don't say, for example, 'The blanket was feeling soft'.
4. emotions and sensations
You can use feel with an adjective
to say that someone is or was experiencing
an emotion or a physical sensation.
When you use feel like this,
you use either a simple form or a progressive form.
I feel lonely.
I'm feeling terrible.
She felt happy.
I was feeling hungry.
You can also use feel with a noun phrase
to say that someone experiences an emotion or a physical sensation.
When you use feel with a noun phrase, you use a simple form.
She felt a sudden desire to scream.
Be Careful!
When you use feel to say that someone experiences
an emotion or a physical sensation,
don't use a reflexive pronoun.
Don't say, for example, 'I felt myself uncomfortable'.
You say 'I felt uncomfortable'.
5. 'feel like'
If you feel like a particular type of person or thing,
you are aware of having some of the qualities or feelings
of that person or thing.
If you want to feel like a star, travel like a star.
I feel like a mouse being chased by a cat.
If you feel like doing something, you want to do it.
Whenever I felt like talking, they were ready to listen.
Are there days when you don't feel like writing?
In sentences like these,
you can sometimes use a noun phrase instead of an -ing form.
For example,
instead of saying 'I feel like going for a walk',
you can say 'I feel like a walk'.
I feel like a cup of coffee.
Be Careful!
Don't say that you 'feel like to do' something.
Dictionary of Problem Words in English
believe& feel
Precisely, believe suggests “to have conviction about,”
“to judge,”
“to think”:
feel indicatesemotion rather than reason.
In daily use, the words are interchangeable”:
“feel (or I believe) that we should go.”
Careful distinction is shown in such a sentence
as “I feel cheerful when I hear from you, because I believe you still like me.”
