English is fucking weird. Take for example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
This is a perfectly fine sentence,. I am not sure I am fine with it.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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That motherfucker's a motherfucker, motherfucker.
A much quoted comment and yet I don't get it the only meaning for the word Buffalo that I know is of an animal.
Buffalo = The city
buffalo = the animal, or the verb meaning "to bully"
The sentence is therefore roughly equivalent to "Buffalo animals that Buffalo animals bully, bully Buffalo animals."
Look at that fine woman with her fine hair. I wonder if she's feeling fine today. Maybe I should take her out for fine dining.
Was that fine hair? Or fine hair? Or fine hair? Or fine hair?
"Fine, I will pay that fine fine."
Counterpoint: fine dining is labeled as such, because you pay a fine (needlessly higher prices) for average food.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
James D. Nicoll
You can also describe how a woman looks without even changing the words.
How does she look?
"She's fine"
SHE'S FINE!!!
She fine
Let's eat grandpa
English isn't a language, it's a mistake
It's fine.
Fine arts
This is fine 🔥
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