‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo’ is an entirely grammatically correct sentence

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Because ‘buffalo’ can mean the large bovine, the city in New York state, or a verb meaning ‘to bully’. It was first created by linguist William J. Rapaport - from the University of, naturally, Buffalo.

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    yeah… i tried to figure it out… its not working
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    This one just made me laugh. (:
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    This is amazing.
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    & this is why I am proud to go to UB....our linguists come up with things like this.
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