On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 6:20:15 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:08:10 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
> >On 2016-09-23 5:48 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >> On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 4:18:01 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
> >
> >>>> 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". 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.
> >
> >It is even odder that he is such a stickler about an antiquated usage.
> >As explained in the article I cited, he is about 100 years out of date.
> >Meanwhile, the "yowse" he so often uses has never been acceptable.
>
> I think it's spelt 'yoose', or something like that.
> Then there's his frequent use of 'fercoktah' (sp).

The "standard" spelling of which is verkakte.

Cindy Hamilton