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You will be amazed to know that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence, it uses the following meanings of the word buffalo:


Buffalo: The place Buffalo, New York.


buffalo: An animal, in the plural


buffalo: To bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.



The sentence thus translates as:


‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo bully bully Buffalo buffalo’


To make things simpler let us replace the word buffalo with another animal, say ‘bison’. Thus it becomes:


‘Buffalo bison Buffalo bison bully bully Buffalo bison’


To make it even simpler let us replace Buffalo the name of a place with another place, say Congo. Thus it becomes:


‘Congo bison Congo bison bully bully Congo bison’


Changing it even further it can be said to have the same structure as:


‘Naughty boys Naughty boys bully bully Naughty boys’


Therefore, it is grammatically correct. It was used in 1972 by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.


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