Things have been a little too complacent around these parts lately. Humdrum, stoic, lethargic, but most feared of all; predictable. The topics have dealt with traffic, traffic, and more traffic. Heck, the guest diatribers were probably stuck in the same backup. No people, this page needs to return to it's roots. It's bedrock, it's core if you will. It's time to make things just a tad more surreal. Let us jump right in, shall we? Homonyms. There are few things more hated than the inappropriate use of a word via it's homonym. Idiots and their spell checkers blindly trusting their computer to catch blunders. I cringe at the thought of a possessive where a [some grammatical term] should lie. (Dammit, I'm an engineer, not a grammarian). But there are so many great homonyms to explore. Too many for a simple single paragraph diatribe to do the subject justice. No. The most abused of the homonyms will be considered here today. The dreaded To/Two/Too triumvirate. You thought I was going to discuss their/they're/there? Hah! A misused 'there' here and their doesn't bother me at all. Get with the program. Most people are able to handle the concept of the number two (2) without any great difficulty, but the 'to' when the writer mean 'too' renders me dumbfounded. This is the easiest form to test for, and still the most commonly mistaken! Think! Listen up people, I'm only going to repeat this three times. Sound it out as follows: Replace the too in the sentence you are writing with an also. Replace the too in the sentence you are writing with an also. Replace the too in the sentence you are writing with an also. If it sounds right, then too is the correct form to use. An example: Are you going to use the ether on him also? See how it flows, how it veritably sings? That's all there is to it. As for the form of too where it is used as an adjective as in the "too many" line above? You're on your own pal, as previously stated, I ain't no grammarian.
And yes, the incorrect use of the word 'their' was intentional.