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Originally Posted by [show]  im glad some people care. i am far from being perfect on the internet, as i dont capitalize or use apostrophes, but thats more of a style than anything else. but yes, "their, there, they're" and "your, you're" pisses me off to no end. i know it's the internet, but come on, it's hard to take someone serious when they say things like "your a freaking idiot!" i mean, come on!
anyway, if i may add:
further/farther: farther is a measure of distance whereas further is a degree of advancement. "i ran farther than you" and "he wanted to further his education." |
Well that is a rule but it's not necessarily set in stone. "Further" can be used in both senses; farther can't be.
I'm focussing mostly on the things I notice in the forum and things that are definitely wrong. If you want to make a thread on disputed things in English, like whether the past participle of "to sneak" should be "sneaked" or "snuck", then be my guest. It's only that it's not the focus of this particular thread.