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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo or something

[–] CocaineShrimp@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week 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.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

(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.

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[–] owsei@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

You & @basis@sh.itjust.works — thank you, very nice!

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Ahh, that makes more sense now.

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[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] NooBoY@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Badger, badger, badger, badger.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

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

[–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My favorite thing about tautologies is how tautological they are.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week 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
[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

even bash is more precise than human language

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

look at you , Mister Money Bag smh

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

This why we need term limits

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] levzzz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

Will Will Smith smith? Will Smith will smith.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] tigolbitties@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Buffalo buffalo buffalo, etc

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] lowered_lifted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've tried quite a few times now, and I can't parse this at all.

[–] slampisko@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Well, that worked. Still, it seems off. If someone were actually writing or saying that, they would most likely use "said" or "wrote" for a at least a couple of those hads.

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[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] match@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

oh, i miss word avalanches

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] owsei@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

"And, per se, and"

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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] lenuup@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

Whoever ate a sandwich ate a sandwich.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

must had deep pockets

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Logic checks out.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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