On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 6:01:54 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:48:08 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> > wrote:
>
> >On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 4:18:01 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
> >> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:15:28 -0400, Brooklyn1
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >Nayla THE UNEDUCATED Azzahra wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>Does this sound familiar? You WANT to eat healthy.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >You want to eat HEALTHFULLY!
> >> >Eating "healthy" means eating huge portions.
> >>
> >> Only in America.
> >
> >Perhaps he's alluding to the expression "a healthy appetite".
> >However, what that means is not eating like a glutton, but
> >having the appetite of a healthy person, as opposed to the
> >weak appetite of a sick person.
> >
> >The dictionary informs me that--informally--"healthy" can
> >denote "considerable in size or amount", such as "a healthy
> >glug of vodka in a pitcher of orange juice".
>
> Yes, it gets used that way here as well.
>
> > It's odd
> >that Sheldon would suddenly use the informal definition,
> >when throughout this thread he's been a stickler for what
> >he believes to be correct usage.
>
> The only group of people I have ever heard say 'healthfully' or
> healthful has been Americans and possibly Canadians. That was the
> reason I took issue with Sheldon's comment, just trying to point out
> that it isn't universal like he seems to imply.

Nor is it actually very common in American usage. People say "healthy".
I'm healthy. Broccoli is healthy. Only an idiot would be unable to
grasp from context that I enjoy good health and the broccoli fosters
good health. Oh, perhaps someone whose first language is not English,
but the language is full of those sorts of pitfalls.

Cindy Hamilton