On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 03:50:16 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Friday, September 23, 2016 at 6:17:50 PM UTC-4, Jeßus wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:07:57 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >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.
>>
>> Indeed. I would hate to have to learn English as a second language.
>> It must be one of the most difficult languages to learn in terms of
>> inconsistencies and apparent contradictions.
>
>On the other hand, it's actually a comparatively easy language to
>learn enough to get by. I think its inconsistencies and contradictions
>give native speakers the intuition to parse badly mangled English.

Yes, it probably helps.