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(prescriptive) but actually descriptive of the changes that occur in language through use.
    In other words, “Think Different” has now entered the
language as acceptable speech, and I’m sure we’ll see its use continue in other
forms, leading to the simplest possible solution: major dictionaries will add
“different” as an adverb.
    There’s certainly precedent. After all, the entire language
has been evolving for the last 1,500 years and will continue to evolve.
    In the wonderful movie Firefly , we see that English has become a weird mix of Chinese, English and whatever else happened to come
along, with odd (sometimes old-fashioned) syntactical rhythms that match the
spirit of the space frontier:
    Capt. Malcolm Reynolds
But it ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. You know what the first
rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do, since you already know what I'm
about to say.
    River Tam
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
    Capt. Malcolm Reynolds
Love. You can learn all the math in the 'Verse, but you take a boat in the air
that you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the
worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down, tells you she's
hurtin' 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
    River Tam
Storm's getting worse.
    Capt. Malcolm Reynolds
We'll pass through it soon enough.
    And so, as an endnote, whatever storms we will go through in
the English language, in the words of Captain Reynolds: “We’ll pass through it
soon enough.”
    Good writing.

Credit where credit is due.
    I have avoided using footnotes in this basic book in order
to keep the text simple. The various sources I consulted are cited below.  Any
errors made, of course, are my own.
    General grammar  reference: Hubbard, L. Ron. The
New Grammar. Los Angeles, CA: Bridge Publications, 1990. Print. http://www.elearnaid.com/newgrammar.html .
    Hubbard, L. Ron.. Small Common Words Defined. Los
Angeles, CA: Bridge Publications, 1990. Print. http://www.elearnaid.com/smalcomworde.html  
    General grammar  and style:
    Devlin, Joseph. How to Speak and Write Correctly (1910). (It is my belief that this book is in the public domain; it can be freely read
on Google Books.)
    LaRocque, P. The book on writing: The ultimate guide to
writing well. Oak Park, IL, 2003: Marion Street Press.
    A wonderful book on the subject of
grammar and punctuation:Truss, Lynne. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The
Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation . New York: Gotham, 2004.
Print and online.”
    On ending sentences with a preposition and the 17 th century introverts: Grammar Myths #1:... OxfordWords Blog. Web. 28 Nov.
2014. blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/grammar-myths-prepositions”
    On the history of English Grammars: History_of_English_grammars.
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Web. 28 Nov. 2014. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English_grammars
    Hyphenation:
Hyphenated Compound Words - When and Why? (1999, June 1).
http://englishplus.com/news/news0699.htm
    And lastly, I am indebted to some wonderful online
resources:
    The Blue Book of Grammar
http://www.grammarbook.com/
    My favorite online etymology site, where I was able to get
the derivations of key words used in grammar so easily:
http://www.etymonline.com/
    The delightful Grammar Girl: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar -girl
    Get it write
http://www.getitwriteonline.com/
    The UW–Madison Writing Center
http://www.writing.wisc.edu/
    Guide to Grammar and Writing (Capital Community College
Foundation)
http://grammar .ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
    A massive list of errors in language, which I found after
I’d written the book and wish I’d learned of earlier. Whatever I’ve missed can
be found here.
https://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
    The wonderful Chaucer site at Harvard
http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/
    Weber State University, commonly misused words and phrases:
http://wsuonline.weber.edu/wrh/words.htm
    Oxford Dictionaries commonly