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   Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 20:36:32 JST Annika Backstrom

   hello im, having a normal one over here

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     Mike (mikedunn@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 20:43:42 JST Mike

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     @annika This is immense.

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 20:43:42 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • Mike

     @mikedunn a Rochester buffalo is buffaloing a Buffalo buffalo

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Nov-2023 20:44:07 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • Mike

     @mikedunn i went to school in Rochester and I can confirm this happens at least as frequently as the diagram suggests

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     Annika Backstrom (annika@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 07:23:13 JST Annika Backstrom

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     • Damien Miller

     @djm it helps to swap out the words

     Starting at the beginning, you could say "Chicago fish Miami ducks bully bully Seattle racoons." I don't know the technical terms for the parts of speech (I'll leave that to linguists and Wikipedia) but the first 4 words implicitly mean "Chicago fish (who are bullied by) Miami ducks"

     There are a few ways to construct the sentence, but this arrangement is the one I usually see

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     Damien Miller (djm@cybervillains.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 07:23:14 JST Damien Miller

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     @annika First, this is amazing.

     At the risk of being the one guy who doesn't understand the joke: why is the third Buffalo capitalised and not the fourth?

     If the Buffalo buffalo are buffaloing the Buffalo buffalo, then shouldn't the sentence be "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"?