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By: John

John — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:47:47 +0000

Bill where Ted had had had had had had had had had had had the professor’s approval.

Punctuation is cool.

Bill, where Ted had had “had had”, had had “had.” “Had had” had had the professor’s approval.

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:23:26 +0000

I ran into an example the other day, the first two words of a headline were “Study Clouds” – I had to stop and reread it to figure out which was the noun and which was the verb.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:02:05 +0000

Let’s Go Buffalo!!! oh wait, this is the wrong blog for that ;)

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:16:39 +0000

I’ll buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo you and buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo …
I don’t even know I’m saying (¯.¯)”

By: kntaja

kntaja — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:42:36 +0000

We’ve got this wonderful tongue twister here in Finland that goes as follows:

-Kokoo koko kokko.
-Koko kokkoko?
-Koko kokko.

It translates as: Build the whole bonfire. The whole bonfire? The whole bonfire.

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:48:15 +0000

Wouldn’t the sentence “I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign” have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips

By: kevin j

kevin j — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 19:33:56 +0000

“Although most people know “buffalo” as both a singular and plural term for bison…” Since when is a buffalo and a bison the same animal? Same family yes, same animal no. Im just sayin…

By: margoGo

margoGo — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:22:52 +0000

@Moe I realize you posted that years ago, but that sentance is German, not Latin…so I’m not sure what foreign language class you were in…

Also, I think what this really needs is a video–there probably is one on YouTube–because I can’t get beyond the first couple of Buffalos. It’s all about inflection.

By: juliebeth

juliebeth — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:43:21 +0000

Latin: “Malo malo malo malo” (missing macrons, which makes it more confusing:

“I’d rather be in an Apple tree than an old man in adversity”…has a nice ring!

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:33:46 +0000

While grammatically correct, there is one problem with this sentence. There aren’t too many Buffalo buffalo. That is, not being native to Western New York, the only buffalo in the city are actually bison kept at the Buffalo Zoo. For this sentence to work, at least 2 of them would have to be trying to intimidate the others in the enclosure.

While this is possible, having lived near the Buffalo Zoo I can personally attest to the fact that these “Buffalo buffalo” tend to stand or sit around all day and very rarely move. I highly doubt that they are buffaloing any Buffalo buffalo.