"like none other"

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sun Dec 20 02:15:01 UTC 2009


I'd guess that this usage came from not understanding the elliptical syntax
of "like none other", and treating the entire opaque phrase as simply an
emphasizer. Hm?

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