Could we also remind people that “good” is an adjective and “well” is an adverb?
“Bob played well.” Not “Bob played good.”
It was a good game, it was a good play, Bob is a good coach." But Coach Bob does not teach English well, so give him a good job in the math department.
The pedants are getting younger and younger every day. And if you don’t like my use of the word “getting”, Friedo – tough!
If I may:
I’m really going to im-fucking-press you with my knowledge of worthless shibboleths.
That, my friends, is an infinitive what be truly split.
The “to” is the marker of an infinitive - it is not part of the infinitive itself. Feel free to boldly go where Mrs. Grundy has never gone before, to wantonly, indeed promiscuously if such be your fancy, place as much as you want between the word “to” and the infinitive itself, if it makes the sentence work better.
Goddamn latinocentric 18th-century grammarians.
I can’t believe you left out the semicolon; sometimes people like to use them where inappropriate.
I used to believe this, but in fact it’s not true.
The most popular usage, by classic legendary writers of old and today, is ‘till’. I don’t know why, but there it is.
(or is that “there it’s” ?)
From your OP:
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I believe the correct usage is “your’s.”
That’s gotta hurt.
P.S. I am a frequent violator of all of the things you mention. It’s not that I don’t know what to do; it’s some sort of odd glitch in my hard-wiring.
A joke may be hysterically funny, but it is not a(n) hysterical joke. The word you’re looking for is hilarious.
Eek! :o I am soooooooooooooooooo sorry.
:sobs:
Really! I’ll be damned! I’ll bet it sucks! You should mention it to her! I hope she stops!
Ok color me confused… Why would the noun “Bob” have an apostrophe s to indicate possessive, but the noun “it” not? Do only proper nouns get the apostrophe? Who made this rule? All nouns should show posesive the same way. If I made the rules, no nouns would have an apostrophe to indicate the possesive. The apostrophe should only indicate a contraction and should only be used with an “s” as a shortining of “_____ is” as in, “Bob’s an idiot. Bobs I.Q. is less than that of a houseplant.”
But then that doesn’t look right, does it.
Would you believe I did well in high school English? (Oh so long ago…)
Oh and the last example sentence brings me to a little language pet peeve of my own…
"Than" and “Then” are NOT, I repeat, NOT interchangeable! “Than” indicates a choice between two things. “Then” indicates a period of time following a prior period. Examples:
“I would rather Bob be banned than continue to keep reading his posts!”
“Bob posted like a troll, then he was banned.”
That is all.
For the same reason you don’t use an apostrophe for “his” or “hers” It doesn’t need it.
See? It makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? 
particlewill, I learned, as Hazel mentioned in a previous post, that the possessive “its” does not have an apostrophe simply so that it will not be confused with “it’s,” as the contraction of “it is.” A rule purely for the sake of clarification, if you will.
My own apostrophe pet peeve: Bob, stop correcting me if you don’t know what the heck you’re talking about. When a noun is plural, an apostrophe without an “S” will make it possessive. Therefore, Bob has two dogs. The dogs have a chew toy. Bob, kindly stop chewing on the dogs’ toy.
However, if a name ends with an “S”, it is perfectly correct to write that Bob’s neighbor Carlos also has a chew toy (presumably, he also has a dog). Bob, feel free to go ahead and gnaw on ** Carlos’s ** toy.
Egad, the example of a doggy toy sounds extremely twisted. I think I’m not going to hang out with Bob anymore, if that’s what he does for fun.
PLEASE stop saying that you “feel badly” to express illness or regret or another unpleasant state of being or of mind. To “feel badly” means that you have an inferior sense of, or ability to, touch. Use “feel bad” instead.
The distinction is not between proper nouns and common nouns. The distinction is between nouns and pronouns.
The word it is a pronoun and does not take an apostrophe in the possessive.
Both Bob (proper noun) and cow (common noun) do take an apostrophe to indicate possession.
Bob’s foot hurts.
The cow’s foot crushed it.
Its cloven hoof was too much for Bob’s sandal to support. (Its = the cow’s)
My head hurts. I think I would rather just keep screwing up on the apostrophe thing.
But it all does make sense.ezcept… I still think that the possesive for Bob should be Bobs or Bobs’ and not Bob’s. An apostrophe within a word indicates a contraction everywhere else.
I can see the it’s/its thing but wouldn’t the same confusion arise from, say, “Bob’s chew toy”, and Bob’s going out" where in the second, the apostrophe indicates a shortening of “Bob is”?
bzzt pop!
Damn. Another neuron burned out.
Now I know why Bob failed so bad when he worked for Microsoft. 
Waitaminnit here. You is a pronoun. The posessives of pronouns don’t have apostrophes, like I said in the first place. So “yours” is correct, isn’t it? I was right the first time, wasn’t I?. Shit. I dunno. I’m gonna have to actually look this up.
My personal pet peeve is people who say “irregardless…”. Irregardless is not a word. You do not need the additional “ir” at the beginning, this is a double negative. I find it quite sufficient to say “Regardless of what others may think, you are a moron with a trout for a brain.”
Heh… know what I hate… you know… folks using lots of ellipses… what is yer problem folks… heh… you know… write with enough ellipses… you start to sound like… heh… some kind of obscene phone caller… or maybe like a pedophile or somethin’…
I once met a guy on a politics list whose posts would be snippets of political slogans connected by ellipses and multiple exclamation points, peppered with interjections. Like so:
Heh… if guns are outlawed… anyway… child not a choice… right!!! you know… freon doesn’t cause global warming… AL GORE DOES!!!
-Ben
“Farther” indicates a specific distance.
“Further” is used when there is a vague distance.
examples:
Friedo ran farther than Bob.
Friedo’s education went further than Bob’s.
ALSO
One does not say “I ran farther than her.” It should be “I ran farther than she” or “I ran farther than she did.”