From. Anybody who says "different than" should be beaten about the head and shoulders with an unbated ablative absolute.
(I was threatened with 6 strokes of the cane by a nun for "different than". I was ten.)
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at August 30, 2019 9:43 AM MDT
What's the old saying?---Words should serve speech; speech should not serve words.
I've adapted my punctuation since I have been on Q & A sites to serve the way I think---which is to analyze and group in categories.
I do the same with my phraseology.
(Both grammar and phraseology have become more tools than rules for me.)
As such, I go with the option below of using whichever phrase you think sounds best in your particular sentence.
Should you need a guide for your differents that doesn’t have quite so much 18th century, here it is.
If you don’t give a fig for what nitpickers think about your language use, proceed with different than or different from depending on how you feel.
If you give a fig, or part of a fig, use different from, except when beginning a clause, or when to do so would sound terrible.
If you are British, or would like people to think that you spent enough time in the United Kingdom for it to have influenced your approach to language, use different to whenever you feel like it.
Largely, national dialect. Using " different than" is an American habit, though doesn't seem universal among the umpteen Americans I've heard on the radio. It's been adopted by a lot of Britons though, presumably merely because they like to affect other countries' dialects!
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