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No, I’m not going mad about buffalos (although their steaks are nice, and Buffalo wings – which are made out of chickens, not buffalo, and are a specialty of Buffalo, NY – are also very nice).
In fact, "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is actually a grammatically correct sentence, an interesting fact that I stumbled upon on Wikipedia.
Stemming from three definitions of "buffalo" – one being an animal, one meaning to bully, and the third being the place – what it stands for is "[Those] buffalo(es) from Buffalo [that are intimidated by] buffalo(es) from Buffalo intimidate buffalo(es) from Buffalo."
So it all makes sense then? Good. I’m off to buffalo some Buffalo buffaloes (although they don’t actually exist).
For more details of this monotonic phrase, see here.
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