Literally

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/heavy-burden-obesity-may-be-even-deadlier-thought-6C10930019

People who are obese are more likely to smoke than people who are not, Thorpe says, and they eat more unhealthful foods.

unhealthful

unhealthful

THIS WAS THE HEADLINING STORY ON NBC.  I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY MORE SHIT ABOUT MY GRAMMAR NAZI TENDENCIES. 

UNHEALTHY.  THE WORD IS "UNHEALTHY".  GODDAMN IT.

OK, that is seriously the least of that sentence's problems. THE VERY LEAST.

"more unhealthful"

"more unhealthful"

Was there something politically incorrect about just saying "less healthful"? 

I think that they were using the more quantitatively, "they eat more foods that are unhealthy," not as a modifier to the healthiness of the food.

DOESN'T MATTER.  THE WORD IS "UNHEALTHY".

Why is it that journalists are now the CULPRITS instead of the grammar Nazis?

Samuel Clemmens and HL Mencken are probably rotating in their graves fast enough to generate Cherenkov radiation.

[Triple Zero]

here is some delightfully long rant about "could care less" :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854042

Um

I have barely started reading the comment  you linked to, and already I notice that the author is apparently unaware that "blackbird" is one word or that "board" in "room and board" still refers to food. That is why by definition a "boarding house" serves meals.

I just remembered again why I often do these things wrong on purpose (though usually not in English, those mistakes are genuine), so much that there's a few Dutch partial phrases were at some point my default option would be the wrong one, I tried to go back, but I only got so far as now both options sound perfectly fine to me. Which is amazing to me, because I usually get language right because certain things "sound" or "feel" right intuitively, instead of applying rules.

[Junkenstein]

Ellipses drive me crazy... like when people write... like this... for no apparent... reason.

I used to do that a lot. Thankfully i stopped, and people... stopped...reading... my.. text.. like .. Bill... Shatner.

Never doubt the power of a dramatic













































                 PAUSE!
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[GrannySmith]

Language as a whole is very dynamic, and I accept that. Though "literally" is one of my pet peeves. Along with the Oxford Comma and using foreign words to mean something completely different in English, such as "uber." Uber is a German preposition that means "above." I can see how it was turned into a superlative, but...GAAAAAH.

Oh, oh, oh...and "decimate." :cranky:

This stuck in my eye and i have to comment, that - ok, if we forget about the missing diairesis ¨ which makes u actually a different letter in german: Ü -, über- as a prefix in german has many uses, one of them being its use as a superlative prefix:
http://www.dict.cc/?s=%C3%BCber
and though i'm not entirely sure about the official rules, colloquially it's seriously überused and i find it überawesum or, correctly put, übergeil 

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[Cramulus]

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/heavy-burden-obesity-may-be-even-deadlier-thought-6C10930019

People who are obese are more likely to smoke than people who are not, Thorpe says, and they eat more unhealthful foods.

unhealthful

unhealthful

THIS WAS THE HEADLINING STORY ON NBC.  I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY MORE SHIT ABOUT MY GRAMMAR NAZI TENDENCIES. 

UNHEALTHY.  THE WORD IS "UNHEALTHY".  GODDAMN IT.

OK, that is seriously the least of that sentence's problems. THE VERY LEAST.

"more unhealthful"

"more unhealthful"

Was there something politically incorrect about just saying "less healthful"? 

I think that they were using the more quantitatively, "they eat more foods that are unhealthy," not as a modifier to the healthiness of the food.

DOESN'T MATTER.  THE WORD IS "UNHEALTHY".

Why is it that journalists are now the CULPRITS instead of the grammar Nazis?

Samuel Clemmens and HL Mencken are probably rotating in their graves fast enough to generate Cherenkov radiation.

IT HAPPENED BECAUSE YOUR GENERATION DECIDED THEY LIKED STEALING NEWS FROM THE INTERNET RATHER THAN BUYING IT ON THE NEWS STANDS.

THIS IS YOUR FAULT

[Cramulus]

This sentence contains two nonspandish words but the meaning can still be glorked from context.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This sentence contains two nonspandish words but the meaning can still be glorked from context.

Yeah, but at the end of that road is Horab.

[LMNO]

HORAB: NOT EVEN ONEC.

[Cramulus]

Horab.

THAT'S NOT A WORD
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