Quote from: jolonnar on May 11, 2013, 02:03:41 AM

Quote from: pekv2 on May 11, 2013, 01:54:12 AM

Quote from: Foxpup on May 10, 2013, 02:31:28 AM

When I first read the title, I thought the epidemic was of people who don't know the difference between "their" and "there". But I guess that other thing's pretty bad too.

I've learned a lot more here on the forums, than I did in school. I caught on the language skills from this forum, rather than I did in school.

I've learned the difference of their and there, how to convert btc prices back and forth, multiply and divide, comma's, from here at the forum. I still really do not understand the to vs too. I've looked it up, and it just doesn't register to me how to and when to use to and too in a sentence, I believe I don't understand the "too" part. There is a lot of other stuff I learned from this forum.

Your commas are a little off here, just to let you know.

"I've learned a lot more here on the forums, than I did in school. " - no comma before than. Likewise with the rather.
No apostrophe on the commas.
Too = too many (amount of things). To = to someone (not referring to an amount).

My apologies--I mark papers for a living, and always believe in being helpful to students.

There is more to the to/too thing than that, which makes it even more confusing.

'To' is actually two different words, and 'too' likewise has two meanings (and we are totally leaving out 'two', that's a number so it makes more sense how it is different). There is 'too', which can be 'more than enough', or 'also'. 'To' can be a preposition, or part of a verb.

We are having too much fun. (amount)
We are having fun too. (also)
We are going from here to the store. (preposition, gives direction)
We like to have fun. ('to have' is the action we like)

Then you can put them all into one sentence:

The two of us are going to go to the store and have too much fun too. (This makes sense if the guy you are talking to has expressed his intention to get rowdy at the store.)

I hope that helps you to use these two words correctly too.