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.)
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:
A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts…
… would be:
(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.)
hmmm, I just copied from Wikipedia as my primary source. That was the faux pas that was cool before AI.
I happen to think wikipedia is still cool :)