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zeroxp
1341 days ago
When you say very different, you could have just said skittish. "It's skittish from what you intended". Isn't that much better?
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johnpublic
1341 days ago
actually, the website says "very different = distinct". So "it's distinct from what you intended."
Which I actually prefer.
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denton-scratch
1341 days ago
Not the same. "Distinct from X" means that it can be distinguished from X; "very different from X" means that it's hard to mistake it for X.
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Which I actually prefer.