From now on whenever people ask me what you do in linguistics I shall tell them you study the meaning of sentences such as this one:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
No I haven't just written the same word 6 times, it is a proper grammatical sentence (well apparently anyway) meaning something like:
"American bison habitually bamboozled by members of their own species that have themselves been bamboozled by others of their ilk (that is, buffalo whom other buffalo who have themselves been buffaloed by buffalo regularly buffalo) tend to engage in bamboozlement."
I know, it makes so much sense!!!
Thursday, April 21, 2005
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