Dnia 18-01-2008, Pt o godzinie 13:19 +0000, Philip Taylor pisze: > Oops, I was wrong to mention that - 'different than' seems to be > common in some Englishes, and I don't want to complain when it's just > dialect variations. >
To me, "different from" is closer to "dissimilar" and corresponds to the question "What are the difference between…" whereas "different than" is closer to "unequal". In other words, a swan is different from a goose but the height of Mount Everest is different than the height of Mont Blanc. (Note, however, that 0 is different from 3: adding 0 does not change the result, etc.)
