Yes -- if you know that it's the one place in Louisiana t /hyperbole where the original French pronounciation is actually used.

OK, so I call myself a writer and a pedant, but there are still things where I'm never sure my usage is correct:

"I must tell you before this goes any FURTHER" or "I must tell you before this goes any FARTHER"? The "this" in question involves time/a process rather than distance, if that helps.

Homer Simpson, food critic

NINE thumbs up, what the hell is that? t /reflex

Google lara flynn boyle anus bleach

Um....no. No thank you.

Wow, Alibelle. I never knew that you were a violinist.

Really? Yep. For nine years. Incidentally, I almost just ran into your office to say hi, but I am technically at work, so I felt guilty.

Thibodaux, anyone?

What Calli said.

on edit - or actually Lilty is closer, but she's also closer to where I grew up.

I always had a question about the anus bleaching. Was she bleaching the skin, or was she bleaching the hair?

"I must tell you before this goes any FURTHER" or "I must tell you before this goes any FARTHER"? The "this" in question involves time/a process rather than distance, if that helps.

Farther always means distance so the first one is correct.

"I must tell you before this goes any FURTHER" or "I must tell you before this goes any FARTHER"? The "this" in question involves time/a process rather than distance, if that helps.

My mnemonic is that farther is a comparative to far, but further is a comparative to forth. (This is the theory of an old Webster's I consulted once.) So, in a process or time situation, further would seem to be the right word.

Thanks, y'all. That's what I thought, but it didn't quite look right either way.

And, on a completely different subject, WHAT is the point, when someone has asked a simple question online and already gotten several good answers, of coming along and snipping, "Oh, you could've looked at this and that website, which I found using a very simple Google"? Why not just move on? Because I'm feeling very snippy toward a random stranger who just posted such a reply to a question I asked on the little_details LJ community last night. I mean, for some reason I never have good luck with Google once I get beyond anything specific I already know the name for, so I usually start by asking such hiveminds as I have at my disposal. Which probably means I need to learn how to better construct a search phrase, but the other five people who answered the question didn't seem to think I was a ditz for asking.

The real problem here is probably the way anyone even slightly hinting that I'm stupid puts me into a fury. Since I already know I'm smart, I don't know why it bugs me so much...

(Susan roooooocks.)

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