Oct 11th, 2007, 17:57
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Re: Website, Web-Site or Web site?
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo...uffalo_buffalo
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The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". In order of their first use, these are- c. The city of Buffalo, New York (or any other place named "Buffalo", which is used as an adjective in the sentence and is followed by the animal;
- a. The animal buffalo, in the plural (equivalent to "buffaloes"), in order to avoid articles and is used as a noun;
- v. The verb "buffalo" meaning to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
Marking each "buffalo" with its use as shown above gives
Buffalo[c] buffalo[a] Buffalo[c] buffaloa buffalo[v] buffalo[v] Buffalo[c] buffalo[a]. Thus, the sentence when parsed reads as a description of the pecking order in the social hierarchy of buffaloes living in Buffalo:
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