Different to, than, or from?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Fair enough.

I didn't take you as the type who knew much about anything.

Same I guess as my thinking of you as a short, balding, fat man.

We can't always be correct! Even YOU!!! 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
Same I guess as my thinking of you as a short, balding, fat man.

We can't always be correct! Even YOU!!! 😉

-VR

Well, I'm a man at least. 1 out of 4 sir for effort.

@divegeester said
He’s too smart for that, he taunts us with his smarts.

I am honestly interested. When I was a teen I read a book titled Word Power Made Easy. Been interested ever since.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Well, I'm a man at least. 1 out of 4 sir for effort.

Hey we got the same thing correct we are both men! 😉

-VR

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I thought I made distinctions between American and UK usage without being too pedantic. My post to JS357 earmarked American usage.

Different, we can all agree, is a tricky word. I'm not interested in prolonging the arguments about prepositions and adverbs.

Andy,
You been around this world a long time....You know what has been going on in the States and around the world other than the Pandemic. Do you think change is coming? Will Martin Luther King's dream come true? Lots of sad things happening for sure. Did you see what happened to that 75 year old man, TERRIBLE stuff?

-VR

@very-rusty said
Andy,
You been around this world a long time....You know what has been going on in the States and around the world other than the Pandemic. Do you think change is coming? Will Martin Luther King's dream come true? Lots of sad things happening for sure. Did you see what happened to that 75 year old man, TERRIBLE stuff?

-VR

Change for the better is on the way. I believe today's exuberant and courageous generation of young people will finally make it happen.

@handyandy said
Change for the better is on the way. I believe today's exuberant and courageous generation of young people will finally make it happen.

Yes, we just may live to see it after all Andy!

-VR

@handyandy said
I thought I made distinctions between American and UK usage without being too pedantic. My post to JS357 earmarked American usage.

Different, we can all agree, is a tricky word. I'm not interested in prolonging the arguments about prepositions and adverbs.

As this thread Is going into the sunset, I will recount an incident: I was giving a talk to a group that included a Brit (and other nationalities). I mentioned ‘gallons’ and the Brit asked ‘whose?’ I said ‘Oh yes, yours differ from ours’ and he said ‘No, yours differ from ours.’ This got jovial laughter all around. Thankfully.

@js357 said
As this thread Is going into the sunset, I will recount an incident: I was giving a talk to a group that included a Brit (and other nationalities). I mentioned ‘gallons’ and the Brit asked ‘whose?’ I said ‘Oh yes, yours differ from ours’ and he said ‘No, yours differ from ours.’ This got jovial laughter all around. Thankfully.

Which US gallon? The dry one or the "wet" one?

Seriously ... how/why do countries put up with this nonsense?
At least with litres it is only the spelling in dispute!

@wolfgang59 said
Which US gallon? The dry one or the "wet" one?

Seriously ... how/why do countries put up with this nonsense?
At least with litres it is only the spelling in dispute!

I blame the French. ‘ The French don't care what they do actually, as long as they pronounce it properly’. - H. Higgins

@JS357

Did we answer your questions?

@handyandy said
@JS357

Did we answer your questions?

About as expected. BTW WRT usage, ngram viewer shows a clear and long-standing leaning toward “different from” in both American and British English sources, although the amount of available source material may have some influence. So when in doubt, “from” might be a pragmatic editor’s best option.

@wolfgang59 said
Which US gallon? The dry one or the "wet" one?

Seriously ... how/why do countries put up with this nonsense?
At least with litres it is only the spelling in dispute!

I being from Canada know why we wound up with the metric system. We thought the U.S.A. were going to do it and thought we'd beat them to it. Then they didn't bother doing it, so now we are stuck with it!

When you're older like many of us are it is harder to convert over and learn the new way of counting and measuring things when we were taught a while different way. Much easier for the younger people growing up with it. We have to translate everything like French and English.

-VR

@very-rusty said
I being from Canada know why we wound up with the metric system. We thought the U.S.A. were going to do it and thought we'd beat them to it. Then they didn't bother doing it, so now we are stuck with it!

When you're older like many of us are it is harder to convert over and learn the new way of counting and measuring things when we were taught a while different way. Mu ...[text shortened]... e younger people growing up with it. We have to translate everything like French and English.

-VR

It always jars me a little to read “the United States are...”, where I am expecting “the United States is...”. I speculate that my being from a “Union state” (Ohio) explains it.

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-united-states-is-or-are/