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[-] EnderWiggin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

English is fucking weird. Take for example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

This is a perfectly fine sentence,. I am not sure I am fine with it.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago

A much quoted comment and yet I don't get it the only meaning for the word Buffalo that I know is of an animal.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Buffalo = The city

buffalo = the animal, or the verb meaning "to bully"

The sentence is therefore roughly equivalent to "Buffalo animals that Buffalo animals bully, bully Buffalo animals."

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That motherfucker's a motherfucker, motherfucker.

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