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THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE*
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I read this today and it kind of boggled my mind. (Please... hold your "easy to do" jokes to do til you read it yourself).
"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence!
From this Wikipedia article: The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". In order of their first use, these are
1. The city of Buffalo, New York (or any other place named "Buffalo", which is used as an adjective in the sentence and is followed by the animal;
2. The animal buffalo, in the plural (equivalent to "buffaloes"), in order to avoid articles and is used as a noun;
3. The verb "buffalo" meaning to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
It may be revealing to read the sentence replacing all instances of the animal buffalo with "people" and the verb buffalo with "intimidate". The sentence then reads "Buffalo people [that] Buffalo people intimidate [also happen to] intimidate Buffalo people".
How cool is that?
*Get it? Buffalo Springfield lyrics |
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I posted this @ 10/10/2007 12:34:00 PM.............Need a link?..........
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