Notice the period at the end of the preceding line? That means it is a sentence. No, really. It is. Thanks to Chelsea Brenegan and her linguistics training for enlightening me about the world's weirdest sentence.
Need help figuring it out? Think of it this way: The word ''buffalo'' in the sentence has three meanings -- the animal, the city in New York and the act of ''buffaloing'' which is another word for teasing or bullying. You could think of the sentence like this: THE buffalo FROM Buffalo WHO ARE buffaloed BY buffalo FROM Buffalo ALSO buffalo THE buffalo FROM Buffalo.
I'm still not entirely sure I get it, but I'm thoroughly intrigued! What do you think?
I think, at 5:05 in the morning, I'm way too NOT awake to figure it out! But, as an editor, I'm intrigued! This was a fun post, Debra--thanks!
ReplyDeleteYeah, what you said!
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Ha! Now you know how we spent part of our family vacation -- learning this! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt seems that sometimes the educational system can go to far. I mean, "Union union, Union Union union."
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