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MarvinTheMartian Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

can mean / make all the difference

Hi,

Which is more correct and why?

"When making light of touchy issues such as racism, it's funny how a poor choice of words can mean / make all the difference between "witty" and "socially unacceptable" to some people."
  

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make [a / all the] difference is the idiom I'm familiar with. I've never heard mean [a / all the] difference . CJ

— CalifJim

  • make [a / all the] difference is the idiom I'm familiar with.
  • I've never heard mean [a / all the] difference .
  • CJ
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make [a / all the] difference is the idiom I'm familiar with.
I've never heard mean [a / all the] difference.
CJ
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I don't know... I seem to recall reading "means all the difference" somewhere... Oh well... So, what should it be then?

"(...) can make all the difference between "witty" and "socially acceptable" to some people"

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"(...) can make all the difference between "witty" and "socially acceptable" for some people"?
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