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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about this one? "James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Needs quotation marks

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I always hated that one because it only works because of the (incorrect) omission of punctuation. The Buffalo buffalo one doesn't need anything except the period at the end to be correct.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Consider the following:

Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Didn't know buffalo was a verb.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It means to bully basically. The sentence can be rewritten as "Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Don't let them buffalo them into believing that tripe.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Bison*

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

"Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo" is a tautology but still a sentence

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It gets worse:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Rochester bison that Rochester bison bully bully Rochester bison

Capitalization is key for this one

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Buffalo: to puzzle or baffle; confuse; mystify