Talk:The Gorilla Experiment/@comment-5831138-20121205133442

Science lapse (Linguistics - Historical Grammar): In this episode, Leonard says "The more the merrier" to which Sheldon replies "That's a false equivalency. More does not equal merry". Actually this clause and similar ones with this structure are not analyzed as equivalencies, they are correlatives with the syntactic structure of the Anglo-Saxon instrumental case, though the case markings are long lost. An analytical rendering would be "by this much more, by this much merrier" (correlate), not "the more is the merrier" (equivalent).