Sally Vix wrote:
Gina wrote:
B E R A T E
https://helloenglish.com/translate/english-chinese-dictionary/meaning-of-berate-in-ChineseThis is silly but will engage in it.
I never berated my wife. I teased her.
Is it EVER correct to berate a spouse? Of course. If your spouse has had 10 drinks at home and throws 3 infants into the car without putting them in car seats and heads to the liquor store to get more vodka, are you going to berate your spouse?
No, you berated her. That's the word you used. You correct, even though you are rarely right, the grammar and word usage of others here all the time, so you have declared yourself a pedant. That means, you surely know what "berated" means, no? You said you berated your wife. Your word, not anyone else's. You changed it to "teased" when you found out others here didn't find that cool that you berated her. And now, you are creating a straw man argument to try to justify what you did. You are a bad person.