Re: Buffalo

Subject: Re: Buffalo
From: Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:26:12 -0700 (PDT)

I forwarded this to some of the developers in my organization with a note stating that this is an example of what Tech Writers think about in their spare moments.

Richard Lewis

Susan Hogarth <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
A grammatically correct sentence:

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo

"Indeed, for any n ? 1, the sentence buffalo^n is grammatically
correct.[3] The shortest is 'buffalo!', meaning either 'bully
(someone)!', or 'look, there are buffalo, here!' For n = 0, this could
be argued to be a valid garden path sentence if one's definition of
'sentence' allowed "" as a valid construction. Rational sentences,
however, generally include at least one word and thus n = 0 is
excluded from the preceding argument."

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Susan Hogarth
http://www.colliething.com


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