“. . . they housed extraordinary tubeworm reefs like those found nowhere else.”
Narration in a documentary from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, presumably composed and reviewed before recording.
In the same film, a U of Alaska ‘wildlife ecologist’ refers to lichen as a ‘species’.
I want my mommy!
Afterthought: regarding the former, I suppose you could call it a case of a misplaced privative. Obviously, it should be ‘unlike those found anywhere else’.
“Rewrite!”
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Re: “Rewrite!”
Misplaced or dropped words happen a lot. Witness, "I could care less!"
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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