further

und das superlative...ich hatte mal was von farthest gelesen?

http://books.google.de/books?id=-I1BAvpiNpAC...

Further/farther are both "possible"

Meines Wissens besteht da ein gewisser Unterschied:

"far - farther - farthest" bei (räumlichen) Entfernungen

"far - further - furthest" bei "übertragener" Bedeutung

Ich glaube, die beiden sind synonym (vielleicht Unterschied im Sprachniveau?)

Hab mal bei reference.com nachgeschaut und da steht für "further":

–adverb 1. at or to a greater distance; farther: I'm too tired to go further.
2. at or to a more advanced point; to a greater extent: Let's not discuss it further.
3. in addition; moreover: Further, he should be here any minute.

–adjective 4. more distant or remote; farther: The map shows it to be further than I thought.
5. more extended: Does this mean a further delay?
6. additional; more: Further meetings seem pointless.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/further

I will go out on a limb and claim that farther and further are used utterly interchangably.

Well, okay - I'll gladly stand corrected ...

;-)

"farther information"??? ;-)

Selkie's limb is a little shaky, as KinkyAfro has pointed out. I think the thing is asymmetric: further/farther are used interchangeably in the spatial sense, but only further in the transferred sense.

@8:

Well, this does sound quite funny, doesn't it?

Ah, escoville - you're making a lot of sense ... to me, anyway.

;-)

Welcome, LEO users, to the wonderful world of shaky limbs and asymmetrical semantics!

Jep, siehe mein Beitrag #5: nur bei dem jeweils ersten Eintrag (1. u. 4.) ist als Synonym auch farther angegeben.

@#12: Yes, I had indeed seen your #5 but just wanted to respond to Selkie's subsequent "utterly interchangably" in #6 (which, in fairness, she perhaps sent before reading your post).

I fear it's rarely a good idea to use words such as "utterly" :O :-)

an ammendment then if you please: As the comparative of "far", they are used utterly interchangably.

I blame Zora for sneaking in her post while I was composing mine. Stop sawing on my limb, I'd like to stay up in this tree.