> the ones sleeping the most less

Good god, this is beautiful. Is this a German idiom?

Not literally, as far as I know (I am also still wondering, of whether it was correct grammar), but there are plenty of:

"Morgenstund hat gold im Mund"

morning time is gold

(to which I agree at times)

or

"Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm"

The early bird catches the worm.

(to where I say, maybe the worm should have slept in that day)

I think the poster you are responding to is referring to the “beauty” (sarcastically, I assume) of the phrasing “most less” instead of “least.” It would be right in line with the confusing way numbers are spoken.

I guess it is just an english grammar issue Germans often make (less, lesser, least and so on for single syllable words and x, more x, most x for the rest). The german equivalent of least is also just one word: wenigsten.

I don't do sarcasm (and it's against the HN guidelines, btw).

"Sleeping the most less" is a beautiful turn of phrase, even if ungrammatical. Or maybe because of it.

Yeah, I feared as much.