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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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I feel cold for them

Is that correct?

You are sitting at home looking out your window and you feel bad for the people outside because it's cold out. You say "I feel cold for the people outside"

I don't know if idiomatic?
  

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It works for me.

(Check your punctuation.)

- A.
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I feel cold for the people outside.

It sounds strange to me. I was expecting I feel sorry for the people outside.

CJ
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That would strike me as a distinctly weird thing to say. I'd expect to hear something like "Those people must be cold" or "I feel bad for those people - it's cold out" or something similar. "I feel cold for them" would make me do a double take.
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I think we need to allow strange and weird things to be said. Otherwise we'd risk putting a lot of good writers out of business. Are you gentlemen saying it's not idiomatic?

I guess, "I feel your pain" would be strange and weird if you hadn't heard it before. (Edit.) I think Clinton made it an idiom.

- A.
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"I feel your pain" is idiomatic, though - "I feel cold for those people" is not. I'm not saying it should necessarily be avoided but anyone using the phrase should be aware of its weirdness.
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CSnyder but anyone using the phrase should be aware of its weirdness.
I'll go along with that! Good point! [Y]
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