To think that 'obligated' is not a proper word?

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

It should be obliged, surely?

[ElectroStallion]

Obligated is v much a separate word!
Use the Google ngram viewer if you want to see how the two have been used over the last 500 years, v interesting.
Peaks in 1590s, 1670s, 1740s and 1820s (though moreso in us English)
I love ngram!

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

No, it's from oblige. Like obliged is. You're obliged to go to Mass. There is no need to invent a new word for this!

[Homebird8]

I'm not RC but I've heard Catholic friends talking about Holy Days of Obligation. Isn't that from obligated and has a hint of necessity rather than favour?

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

But that sentence works just as well better with 'obliged'.

We need Miss Annersley to adjudicate.

[Orwellschild]

Elisaveta glad to be of service, your Royal Highness!

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

Thank you Bagel. .

Online dictionary never helps, Ego .

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

Sorry

(I wonder what did happen to Cogito, she gave me very good advice once.)

[BagelGoesWalking]

Elisaveta of Belasornia what a flashback to my childhood! Wonderful username

[AYD2MITalkTalk]

I've got semantic satiation.

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

Sorry Ego, Latin fail . You're not CogitoErgoSum. You're Gloria Gaynor.

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

I'm just waiting for "medalling" when we get to Rio...

[quencher]

I am obliged to you, this sounds wrong

If you oblige, you don't have to follow through. It can be a promise. Am nice so I will do this for you.

Obligated. Part of your job. Part of what your meant to do. As someone mentioned up thread, in your contract you have these obligations that you will have to adhere to.

Am sure an English teacher will come round.

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

It doesn't, Descartes, because the meaning is The Same!!!

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

Ooh yes Madam. Also 'actioning', 'evidencing' and especially 'yellow carding'.

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

But that's being obliging, Quencher. Totally different. Feeling obligated and feeling obliged are the same thing, except the former is wrong American.

[quencher]

Snuffle, that's what I thought. When you are obligated, you have the duty to to perform or follow through (for example a doctor is obligated to treat a patient or has the obligation to treat a patient). With oblige, it's out of goodwill. You can do it if you want to. For example, you can give to the homeless if you want to. It's not an obligation but you can be obliged to do so because it's charitable.

[EElisavetaOfBelsornia]

I am obliged to you, OrwellsChild.

[Orwellschild]

Is a word. Albeit a reasonably recent one, fundamentally the meanings of both (obliged etc) are the same, however obligated is used more to denote necessity due to legal / moral / procedural processes etc.

Love the username, Op!

[WhereYouLeftIt]

Is it an American import? I'm sure I've seen it in old books (Dickens, Austen or some such). And it has a subtly different meaning to 'obliged' to me too. More formal. Suggestive of contracts, with a whiff of reluctance. Whereas 'obliged' is more personal somehow, friendlier.