Buffalo ^ 9. Owned
So I was doing some reading, and came across the following Wikipedia article:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Turns out… that’s actually a grammatically correct sentence. Feel free to explore exactly how that works on Wikipedia, but for the time-strapped, here’s a rough translation:
Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.
They are using buffalo as both a noun (bison), proper noun (city in NY), and a verb (to intimidate).
I’m so impressed. FYI it’s also your funny link, it made me ell oh ell, you should too.
January 30th, 2007 in
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This article on Wikipedia took up much more time than Wikipedia articles normally do. For me, the grammar of the entire sentence was fascinating. And I must say, the author(s) of the article did a great job explaining the breakdown of the sentence. The only thing missing was a diagram.