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"Depreciated" is a verb.

It's a past participle being used as an adjective, as allowed by proper grammar, and you're not only wrong, but a twit.

I'm more worried that this overpaid knob, or the overpaid knob quoting him, considers "all the sudden" to be cromulent.

Arbitrary idiom may be arbitrarily used

Although all of the sudden has been used in centuries past, all of a sudden is the phrasing that eventually stuck. Perhaps it is because Shakespeare used of a sudden in The Taming of the Shrew in 1594, and centuries of grammarians couldnâ(TM)t help but side with The Bard:

Tranio:
I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible That love should of a sudden take such hold?

Some say that on a sudden is an archaic Scottish variant, but consider that London-born Daniel Defoe used it in Robinson Crusoe in 1719.

My crop promised very well, when on a sudden I found I was in danger of losing it all again.

Used historically, used by famous authors, but since self-appointed grammarians have a hard-on for Shakespeare we have to put up with you and their ilk losing your minds if we don't follow your arbitrary decision of "cromulence."

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. The arraignment doesn't even start until after your bond hearing ...

Uh oh. Shit's about to get real. We're about to get schooled by a lawyer or someone who's been to jail! *grabs popcorn*

believing that your decision to shoplift was somebody else's fault (i.e. you're irresponsible)

You used that one correctly.

While the seriousness of the charge will also likely raise your bond (if not have it denied completely, i.e. for capital murder)

Ugg. I guess that means you're not a lawyer? :(

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/know-your-latin-i-e-vs-e-g/

The usage of "wont" in the story is correct. Hugh Jorgen, "want" is not appropriate here. https://www.grammarly.com/blog...

(a) It's "fewer" not "less"

(b) Those worker would probably get laid off anyway when the EU adds tariffs on Levi's jeans in retaliation to Trump's Steel/Aluminum tariff's -- though, I (and others) are speculating that he will reconsider imposing them just after the special election in Pennsylvania's 18th District (which has some steel/aluminum mills) on March 13.

It's interesting, though, that Levi's will go directly to using automation with the lasers rather than using sharks.

Well, maybe hand in your English comprehension/troll/geek card instead, I am not sure which one you may have.

What Does / Mean Between Words?

To Indicate Or

Often, when a slash is used in a formal or informal text, it is meant to indicate the word or. The examples below illustrate this meaning of the forward slash:

When leaving the classroom, the teacher noticed that a student had left his/her backpack.
College freshmen should bring a mattress and/or cot to sleep on during orientation.
If/when Mary ever shows up, we can all head out to the party together.
Burgers or pizza for dinner? Yeah, either/or is fine with me.

https://www.grammarly.com/blog...

Now guess what & between words mean to redeem yourself.

They "patched the vulnerable"? Really?

It's a close relative of Do the needful.

I definitely experience the same thing - my creativity is best triggered by high energy music

I kind of wonder whether the real takeaway from the study is supposed to be "listening to music you like helps with creativity." I've certainly found that to be the case when I listen to punk metal (my current musical flavor of choice). And sludge metal helps me when I need to just focus on rote tasks and get into a trance "zone". But I'm sure others would find their creativity or productivity impeded by listening to those genres, so I would never suggest anyone else listen to them to help with tasks unless I know their musical preferences.

Considering that they had people listen to sad, anxious, and calm (or anxious and calm at the same time somehow? Damnit New Scientist, this is why people use Oxford commas!) classical music, I'm not sure you can draw conclusions outside that genre. This seems to be more about "happy classical music" having a positive effect on a greater portion of the population than other emotive flavors of classical music. But even that may not hold true for everyone. Maybe it's just that more people have a positive reaction to "happy classical music" than other kinds of classical music, but that the effect is reversed for some percentage of people.

In short, I find the study interesting, but as usual the magazine article takes the conclusions and runs with them beyond the scope of the actual study.

I take your point. Thats why I used quotes around "fittest" in the original post. Did you not notice?

Quotation marks can occasionally be used for emphasis, but only when quoting a single word which someone else used. Usually, this implies that the author doesn’t agree with the use of the term.

https://www.grammarly.com/hand...

Fail.

Let's see, there's these: http://www.say-it-in-english.c...

There's this diatribe as well https://www.grammarly.com/blog...

Its not that uncommon. Through, Though and Cough is an excellent sampling.

From high school English, there are 31 acceptable uses for a comma. Evil English teacher made us label every comma used in our writing assignments. I no longer have his list but found what appears to be an equivalent list here http://www.grammarly.com/handbook/punctuation/comma/

Actually the grammar in the summary is technically not correct.
An adverb should not be placed between the verb it is modifying, and the direct object.

The sentence could be corrected by moving "necessary" after the direct object:
"...a game console that will make their own Linux-based software platform necessary,"


(This assumes the term "correct grammar" is defined as a description of how most native speakers speak, rather than a prescription of rules to make oneself understood.)