• SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    That’s because it needs a semicolon:

    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo; buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

    Also it isn’t a very good sentence because you’ve said the same thing twice.

    It should read:

    Buffalo buffalo buffalo; Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

    Translation:

    “Buffalo” is a place, a noun (more or less meaning bison), and a verb (to harass or bully). So what it means is:

    Bison bully bison; Buffalo bison bully Buffalo bison.

    • Hmm, I don’t see how semicolons work in this sentence.

      Marking up the sentence with extras to help visualize:

      Buffalo-buffalo (who) Buffalo-buffalo (do) buffalo (in return also) buffalo (the other) Buffalo-buffalo.

      A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts…

      • Buffalo buffalo → other nouns qualified by adjectives
        • Foreign cars
        • Austin techbros
        • big money
      • buffalo (verb) → other verbs
        • covet
        • cost

      … would be:

      Foreign cars Austin techbros covet cost big money.

      (edit: I couldn’t quickly think of a location adjective for the last noun, which would have stuck to the pattern more closely, but “big” is still the same role, an adjective.)

    • G_M0N3Y_2503@lemmy.zip
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      6 hours ago

      hmmm, I just copied from Wikipedia as my primary source. That was the faux pas that was cool before AI.