Lewdest,,,
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LOL! Yep.
I’ve been seeing some moronic speech working its way into linguistic activism and being approved by some younger English academics. One example is the use of the phrase, “different than.” It implies a difference in quantity or extent between two items.
The proper use is still “different from.” One thing is different from another. It’s only distinguished from another thing with no implication of being more “different than” another thing. Do you see?
Writers should be required to write “more different than” instead, to make their idiocy more obvious to the less educated readers. “Duh.” ;-)
BTW, I’m not wanting people to be so particular in informal comments to a discussion board like this one. The complaint is about journalists writing articles for big publications.