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Looking forward to open mic night.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: New Mexico
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: above 7,000 feet
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Most of the hotels we stay in don't even have running water, let alone internet. But if I can get a connection, of what would you like a picture? |
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Austin, TX
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It's a girl! (Well, they're 90% sure anyway, there was this pesky umbilical cord in the way...)
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Come on, cat.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area
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Woohoo! Congrats
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Looking forward to open mic night.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: New Mexico
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HLJ-I'll make it easy...just post the photos when you get back. It's vacation time, have fun! Oh, I want a beach sunset photo with you wearing something very attractive if you are taking requests.
35 degrees when I left the house this morning. We don't live in a low lying desert. We are at a high altitude, higher than people think. Before I got here I didn't even think it snowed here. I was so....so wrong. Naive about NM....... Yes, we have to wear coats, gloves, and scarves right now like everyone in the north right now. All the photos of NM just look really hot unless you take a photo of all the snow. It's a desert, yet it is a high desert, and that makes all the difference. I was snowed in, in Taos, (on vacation) in May. Maybe not as cold as everyone else right now, but yes, cold. Clod- Wow, congratulations!!! Girls rock!!!
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#921 |
We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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Yey! Congrats Clod! All good wishes for the little clodchen
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#922 |
why so serious
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Awesome, congrats Clob.
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Doctor Wtf
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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This
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#924 |
Glutton for Gluttony
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tampa, FL
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Congrats Clod!
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#925 |
Only looks like a disaster tourist
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: above 7,000 feet
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In concept, FSM is really no different than Scientology or Mormonism.
edit: different from or different than? |
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We have to go back, Kate!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Yorkshire
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from or to.....I think 'to' actually.
Something differs from...but is different to...I think. |
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Location: Austin, TX
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I think in this case you mean different from. "Than" would imply that Scientology and Mormonism are different (from something else, i.e. standard religions) and FSM is no more different than they are. At the very least, "than" would require a modifier like "more" or less to indicate a side (like you could say A is uglier than B, but not "A is as ugly than B.")
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Location: Yorkshire
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Esnohplad Semaj Ton
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: A little south of sanity
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"Different from" and "different to" sound foreign to me. I understand them, but they are definitely a linguistic out-marker to me.
I routinely hear both now that I live in the UK. Before I came here, "different to/from" wasn't something I heard said. If you want, I can try and formalize some of the grammatical oddities in the speech here (I'm talking mainstream British English, not Geordie) and post it in another thread. |
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