"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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Susan, sometimes I find that google or yahoo searches don't give me what I'm looking for too, but some people on the board use certain sites/shortcuts that you wouldn't normally think to use that give better results. I personally have no qualms about asking people here about something.

I think it's funny when people type "/not here" when they most obviously were in order to type that. It's a drive by posting; throwing their two cents into the toll booth and driving away.

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Somebody was giggling when they wrote that headline. It sounds like a line from a Tom Lehrer song.

Susan, sometimes I find that google or yahoo searches don't give me what I'm looking for too, but some people on the board use certain sites/shortcuts that you wouldn't normally think to use that give better results. I personally have no qualms about asking people here about something.

Me neither. And I certainly don't mind answering questions on my own areas of expertise--it lets me feel I'm being virtuous and helpful while also getting to show off a little, so it's all good.

I wouldn't have minded the LJ post so much if I hadn't already gotten my question answered several times over, or if it'd been in the tone of, "Here's this neat site I found if you need similar info in the future." But it was more like, "Why are you asking stupid questions here when you could just google?" so I'm all irrationally pissy about it.

Also, you googling instead of asking doesn't tell me anything. And it often happens that someone will bring up a question on something that is new and interesting, or that I'd also wanted to know but didn't think to ask.

Susan, I checked the post, and the person in question has rubbed me the wrong way before (not in direct interaction, but observing her interacting with other people), so I'd shrug it off.

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