Boojatta
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Sun Jul-20-08 10:17 PM
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Is "than" really much different from "from"? |
kat_kringle
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Sun Jul-20-08 11:16 PM
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1. yes, i would say it is very different |
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not only are they spelled with entirely different letters, i am at a loss to think of a sentence that would use the two interchangably.
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Sun Jul-20-08 11:19 PM
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EXACTLY what I was thinking; yes INDEED :o
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Sun Jul-20-08 11:23 PM
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3. How about a sentence that's a thread title? |
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"Is radical Islam really all that different than Christianity?"
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Sun Jul-20-08 11:27 PM
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because 'than' is used to compare two things of unequal comparison
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