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Surely you’ve thoroughly thought this through though?

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It’s tough.

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They did. And don’t call them Shirley!

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity.

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Do love me some annoying wordplay, like the Chinese poem Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

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I feel like there needs to be a comma somewhere in that sentence but I don’t know why…

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Before the last word.

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That’s my first thought, but my brain keeps trying to inject one immediately following “Surely.” No idea why.

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Knowing there should be a comma in the sentence, is half the battle. Knowing why… is the other half.

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Nayeth, though thou hath thoroughly thought thots through.

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…I spend a lot of my time thinking while waiting in the drive-thru.

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Holy shit this is really cool.

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Yeah, but wow, that just keeps going and going…

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Just like your mom! HA! GOTT’EM!

What hard working lady!

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity. It has been discussed in literature in various forms since 1967, when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann’s Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

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In German, we have “Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach”. Notice that all nouns are capitalized in German.

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But that one is really easy to understand when you know German, unlike the buffalos

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Yup. I know a bit of German, but that doesn’t help with the buffalos at all.

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3 points

bill!

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bill!

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msn messenger noises

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It is grammatically correct, just semantically ambiguous. Buffalo is a proper noun, a noun, and a verb.

A semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: “Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison.”

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From Dr Seuss’s “The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough”

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Depending on the location, “Aaron earned an iron urn” is an interesting example in spoken language.

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Ern Ern en Ern Ern

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