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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a grammatically valid sentence.

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Jojatekok

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Re: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_bu … lo_buffalo - Listen to it from 0:00 until 0:13. It's so funny 1bigsmile1

Kaosslasher

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i like how it gets lower                                                   but yes, it is rather funny
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jakery

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I've heard of this before.

It's supposed to mean this:

The city of Buffalo's buffalo, who the city of Buffalo's buffalo bully*, bully* the city of Buffalo's buffalo.

*buffalo can also be a verb, meaning "to bully [someone]."
I thought it was a load of poo back then, and my opinion of it remains the same today. Calling this sentence syntactically correct is a stretch, as I don't think the adjective phrase (buffalo #3,4,&5) can realistically stand on its own with the preceeeing "that/who" implied. I test this by substituting words from the sentence out with other words sharing the same part of speech.

Minneapolis bison Fargo buffalo bully harass Milwaukee bison.

Put the "that" in there and the syntax is far less ambiguous:

Minneapolis bison that Fargo buffalo bully harass Milwaukee bison.

Semantically, the sentence is utter nonsense because the subject, direct object, and adjective clause's subject are all the same plural noun and all refer to the same specific instance of buffalo. This makes the adjective clause redundant. It's an illogical circle of buffalo bullying themselves, with none of the buffalo acting as the bully's victim.

As a bonus, consider that using "buffalo" as a transitive verb (synonymous with bully) is highly obscure, if not archaic.

Mix all of this together and you have an award-winning recipe for poo.
 

TL;DR: This sentence is loved by grammar trolls everywhere.

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Sabrillian

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Doesn't every sentence need a subject and a verb to be a valid sentence? That's awkward.

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apparently buffalo is a verb and 2 types of nouns.

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D-rock2308

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Doesn't every sentence need a subject and a verb to be a valid sentence? That's awkward.

Buffalo University buffalo'ed a buffalo who baffalo'ed a buffalo. Ect.

jakery

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apparently buffalo is a verb and 2 types of nouns.

The capitalized Buffalo is a city. It could mean Buffalo, New York, or Buffalo, Minnesota, or possibly others. So "Buffalo buffalo" means, "buffalo from the city of Buffalo."

It's in the dictionary, but I've never heard anyone use "buffalo" as the verb meaning, "to bully" outside of the buffalo^8 sentence.

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Old news is old

jakery

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Old news is old

I'm pretty dumbfounded by how much I wrote in my reply; I was in a very awful 3-and-a-half hour meeting (no exaggeration--literally a 210-minute meeting) and writing that post on my iPhone was how I stayed sane.

Yes, old news is old.

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The best explanation:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv-fMZgyuaw[/youtube]

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o0o

It makes so much sense to me nao....
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I've now read buffalo so many times that I don't think it's a real word anymore.

Thanks a lot, Kaosslasher.

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So 'I'll buffalo you' is a valid sentence?

Kaosslasher

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Yes, if buffalo is referring to abuse/bullying then yes