Thank you juju. I'd never heard that before; hopefully it will help me.
I'm normally very anal about such things. If I see someone use "it's" as a possessive, I can pretty much write them off as far as having any intelligence goes. So I'm constantly pissed off by the fact that I know "affect" and "effect" are commonly transposed, but I can never myself remember which is which.
Now, if someone can explain "different from" vs. "different than" in a way that sticks in my head, I'll be set.
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