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The buffalo of Buffalo are notorious for their buffaloing of other Buffalo buffalo.
I first came across this in Steven Pinker's flawed but fascinating The Language Instinct. As conform points out here, it is actually possible to construct an arbitrarily long sentence using only the word buffalo, even without involving the city in upstate New York; 'buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo,' for example, means 'the buffalo buffaloed by buffalo in turn buffalo other buffalo' (to buffalo is to overawe or intimidate). Similarly, "buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" means 'the buffalo buffaloed by buffaloes from Buffalo themselves buffalo the buffalo of Buffalo.' Do you see?
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