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Chris -- 2018-04-11
My wife found on a YouTube post of a pic by Norman Rockwell:
I don’t think there’s been a man quite like him before since.
Pretty clearly the intended phrase was “before or since”. It could easily be elision of the second “or(e)” sound (or spelling), but as written I find it wonderful. There are likely other examples on the Inet, but they are swamped by citation after citation of people asking or answering the question “Should you write a comma before ‘since’?”
I did find this one, which I think is different:
This company provides products since 2010. Consequently, there is no record of this product before since.
Here it the target must have been “before/since then/that time/etc.”
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Anyhow, “before since” is now on my list of favorites. It wasn’t there long before since.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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