re: #91 DangerMan

You warp grammar, they warped speed

I can foresee “different from” becoming a thing of the past, as “different than” is used more and more frequently. It’s the fluidity of language, and try as we teachers might, grammar rules are only descriptive, not proscriptive, in the larger sense.

Likewise, there are many examples of Chinese learners consistently changing English to make it conform to Chinese grammar. For example, they will say “I very like that,” instead of “I like that very much.” Given the sheer numbers of Chinese speakers of English, I can also foresee everyone around the world adopting that syntax within the next century.