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Old Sat Jan 10, 2009, 02:23am
Juulie Downs Juulie Downs is offline
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
mbyron to English translation:

"Do all Fox News fans use, "opposite than", instead of the more correct, "opposite from"?"

(I must credit my ex for this bit of grammatical knowledge. I guess that she eventually got tired of correcting me)
Actually, it should be "opposite OF". Lots of people say, "different than" when it should be "different from". But I've never heard that "opposite from" is ever, ever correct!

btw, Padgett, I say endline mostly, courtesy of Howard, who insists on it.
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