• Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      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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        7 days 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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        7 days ago

        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.