BUT, be careful with the concept of 4chan and "no retribution". There have been countless examples of 4chan "reacting" to threads, I'm sure I don't need to go into detail here.
Exactly, just came here to say that. Heroku has some serious cash and resources post-Salesforce.com acquisition, seems like they should prioritize redundancy across another provider or whatever datacenter(s) Sfdc are using.
I mean as an achievement (from the technical point of view), this is pretty amazing, but this feels as more of a "look at what we can do" thing, than a real attempt at a phone.
Much love for nokia though, hope they reclaim the throne one day.
This is the future of hackathons, free code days and weekend dev marathons.
Yet I'm not sure how soon any serious company will trust it with serious applications.
I'm not putting it down, this is incredible progress, the money (x millions in funding) behind it will give it a good amount of momentum, but it just seems a bit too easy, a bit too gimmicky to be taken seriously. I hope I'm wrong.
The fact that flat adverbs exist doesn't make this usage correct. The fact that it's incorrect however doesn't warrant comment. We all know what the writer intended.
The link in my previous post has more background. Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, John Dryden, Jane Austen and so on were hardly writing in "American English." In fact the non-ly adverb is a relic of Anglo-Saxon declension and is present in all modern Englishes, much like the few remaining English accusatives ("him," "her," "them", etc.).
Contrary to the comment above, "awful curious" isn't incorrect usage. It's only ambiguous if you start from the assumption of an error (missing punctuation, missing conjunction, or missing -ly).
English is rich with similar constructions that are widely mistaken for errors due to prescriptions in basic style guides, which is about as far as most folks' knowledge of the language extends. Another common one is the comma splice, which isn't an error as long as you know to call it asyndeton or parataxis.
With a few noted exceptions (often where the -ly form has another meaning) flat adverbs are considered archaic at best. That the examples you cite are from early modern English is hardly surprising - American English usage did not develop in complete isolation from its roots.
That occasional use of this earlier form has persisted in American English dialect is also unsurprising; there are other examples of anachronistic language forms, often in slang, topolect or sociolect, where common usage has otherwise died out.
The GP poster correctly observes that non-standard use of flat adverbs is more common in American English, sometimes associated with a "deep South" topolect.
Yes flat adverbs still exist in common and accepted usage, usually for good reason, but this does not make using just any adverb in plain form "correct", or less jarring to the educated ear, unless done so for stylistic reasons (which was not the case here).
I still feel the correction was unwarranted in this particular social context, but perhaps that's just me.
Do you think this doesn't happen in private companies I know of a recent case where some one went down for or a major 10+ years stretch for conspiracy at British Telecom - passed address location to a hitman.
Google also has fired several people for this and in the US I bet a few people get fired every year for looking up Obama's tax records etc
well actually those people are not paid to spy on us its explicitly gross misconduct in the civil service just as it is in any the company that deals with peoples data.
its Tabloid Hacks and dodgy PI's that are paid to spy on us that are more worrying for civil society
BUT, be careful with the concept of 4chan and "no retribution". There have been countless examples of 4chan "reacting" to threads, I'm sure I don't need to go into detail here.