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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Language is hard (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months 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."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That motherfucker's a motherfucker, motherfucker.