Try hold . Try figure out, learn, find out, fit or decide. See virgule for punctuation mark. Can be pompous and overstated if you simply mean talk, chat, speak, converse or exchange ideas . My car is different from hers.
Dogs are different from cats .
Different than is usually wrong. How different things appear in Seattle from how they appear in Miami. When you mean two items are unlike, use differ from . One thing differs from another. When people disagree or are in conflict, they differ with one another.