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[-] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo or something

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Well actually no, I only got 7/8 and didn't have the capitalization correct. But I appreciate your support, not only in tone but also in source material

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Apparently there's nothing special about 8 buffalos; any sentence that consists solely of the word buffalo repeated is grammatically correct. Also as an idiot on this subject I can confidently tell you that as long as you throw some lowercase buffalos in there nobody is going to notice.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Struggling to see it really making sense as a sentence with more than 5. Reading the example doesn't really seem like a proper sentence either. Replacing buffalo with the 3 different meanings of the word for the full sentence doesn't really seem like a sentence. "Bison intimidate intimidate bison" specifically, why is intimidate repeated? Also why the extra "Buffalonian bison" at the start.

[(Buffalonian bison) (Buffalonian bison intimidate)] intimidate (Buffalonian bison).

At least this easily makes sense - Buffalonian bison intimidate Buffalonian bison, but that just gives you buffalo repeated 5 times.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

(Buffalonian bison) (Buffalonian bison intimidate)] intimidate (Buffalonian bison).

[(Albany cattle) (Utica bison bully)] intimidate (Syracuse oxen)

[The] Albany cattle (that Utica bison bully) intimidate Syracuse oxen.

In this sentence, "cattle" are the subject, and "oxen" are the object. The verb is "intimidate". Everything else is some form of adjective modifying "cattle" or "oxen"

We can go further:

[The] Albany Cattle (that Utica Bison bully) intimidate [the] Syracuse oxen (that Poughkeepsie yak deceive).

Cattle are still the subject; Oxen are still the object.

The cattle (which are bullied by the bison) intimidate the oxen (which are deceived by the yak)

Moving on:

[The] Albany cattle (that Utica bison [that Buffalo buffalo buffalo] bully) intimidate [the] Syracuse oxen [that Poughkeepsie yak deceive].

The cattle are still intimidating the oxen. Which cattle? The cattle that are bullied by bison. Which bison? The bison that are buffaloed by buffalo.

Which oxen? The oxen that are deceived by the yak.

The buffalo buffalo the bison; the bison bully the cattle; the cattle intimidate the oxen. Which oxen? The oxen which are deceived by the yak.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Amazing breakdown. My brain struggles with it after 8 buffalos.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Buffalonian buffalo [who] Buffalonian buffalo bully, bully Buffalonian buffalo

for me splitting the groups made the sentence make sense: NJ people NY people bully, bully NY people

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ahh, that makes more sense now.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You & @[email protected] — thank you, very nice!

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Badger, badger, badger, badger.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Snake! A snake! Oh, it's a snake!

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

My favorite thing about tautologies is how tautological they are.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Amazing; the features I like the most about the things I like are also what I like about the most about them. Truly, you and I have our similarities in common.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yoy should come join the tautology club. Just remember these three rules:

  1. The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club
  2. The second rule of tautology club is not the first rule of tautology club
  3. If this is your first night at tautology club, you haven't been here before
[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

so, whoever coined the term "coined the term", coined the term "coined the term"

even bash is more precise than human language

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

ad username: just -j8? how long does that take?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

look at you , Mister Money Bag smh

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

This why we need term limits

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Somewhere at Microsoft there is, presumably a Teams Team team.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I think there are like, seven of them and they don’t talk to each other.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Whoever coined the term "coined the term", coined the term "coined the term"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What's with all the punctuation are you mad at me

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Someone in this little thread be like:

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Will Will Smith smith? Will Smith will smith.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

star wars star wars, cool cool cool. you understand.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Buffalo buffalo buffalo, etc

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

...for any natural number of repetitions of "buffalo", no less.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

a good way to teach both a weird case in English and a common algorithm in information science at the same time, if one wanted to do that in a STEAM course

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh! Is that the new "Science, Technology, Engineering, AI, And Math" Curricula? 🪦

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

All of the faith that he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

oh, i miss word avalanches

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've read and so many times now it doesn't look like a word anymore

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

this could use some punctuation marks but its funny anyway if not a bit redundant

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

My single, "My single is dropping," is dropping.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Whoever ate a sandwich ate a sandwich.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Logic checks out.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

must had deep pockets

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