Comparatives

The second of your sentences is invalid. "Than" should be "as". "Me" would be acceptable in spoken English, but formally it should be "I". So correctly it should be "Are you sure you want the same as I?". And of course, that sentence has an implied "do", so now you're back to your first, correct, sentence.

Rommie

I don't think you have really answered my question, but thanks anyway.

Well, I'm always keen to help. What have I missed?

"Than" is simply wrong here. It's as wrong as "hippopotamus" would be. And for the same reason - it would be meaningless here. It's wrong because it's completely the wrong word. What more can I say?

"...the same than..." is simply not an English construction. Ever.

Rommie

You have missed the whole point of my question. Trying to compare me to a hippopotamus is not fair. It is completely wrong. I wish you could have answered my question with a less ofensive example, you know that up to now I had a very high opinion of you!!!!

Um. I wasn't. I merely intended to imply that the word "than" was as incorrect as the word "hippopotamus" would have been in its place. Or the word "toothbrush". Or the word "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

Okay, let's start again. I'm not insulting you. I never was. I wasn't being offensive. Not even a little bit. You seem to have decided to take offense where none - absolutely no

That explains a few things, I might be totally wrong but the communication failure caused a very strange feeling in me.

Phew! Well, it made me feel pretty bad too, actually. Let's just chalk this one up to experience and not do it again, eh?

Anyway, back to the question. Americans say "different than". (It's formally "different from"). It's possible that this is where you got the idea from, however I suspect that not even Americans say "the same than". Let's ask an expert...

Chameleon, would "t

learn to spell offensive, you diplodoccus

And you'd better learn to spell Diplodocus, Anon.

MrP

Maybe s/he meant diplococcus, MrP-- there's a lot of that going around. And, say-- I wish rommie were still active here: s/he's a great respondent.