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Language is hard(lemmy.world)

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EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
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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.

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Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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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.

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Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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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.”

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bamfic@lemmy.world
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That motherfucker’s a motherfucker, motherfucker.

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