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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Up date update: date up date

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo or something

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (8 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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    (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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My favorite thing about tautologies is how tautological they are.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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
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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    This why we need term limits

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

    even bash is more precise than human language

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Will Will Smith smith? Will Smith will smith.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Buffalo buffalo buffalo, etc

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    oh, i miss word avalanches

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 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?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Whoever ate a sandwich ate a sandwich.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    must had deep pockets

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Logic checks out.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Shakespeare coined it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    For the confused:
    "Whoever coined the term 'CTM', coined the term, 'CTM'!"

    ("CTM" being the term, "coined the term".)
    (Please note that "term" is not an accurate word. A potentially better word would be "idiom". Thank you for reading.)

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  • [+] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)