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Yahew

is grammatically correct, apparently.

( To buffallo is to bully)

Funkfield

Yeah, I reckon so.

As I see it:

Buffalo buffalo (buffalo from Buffalo) Buffalo buffalo buffalo (that are bullied by buffalo from Buffalo) buffalo Buffalo buffalo (also bully buffalo from Buffalo).

Yahew

Well done. Had to look it up myself, when someone told me :-)

Funkfield

I've never had luck with this one and have resisted the temptation to look it up, so far.

"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher"

Yahew

That one seems a bit of a cheat, as it does need puctuation, and a prior explanation.

Eliot Rosewater

Yahew wrote: »

That one seems a bit of a cheat, as it does need puctuation, and a prior explanation.

Can you provide?! That buffalo one is nice!

Yahew

From Wiki:

"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" is an English sentence used to demonstrate lexical ambiguity and the necessity of punctuation,[1] which serves as a substitute for the intonation,[2] stress, and pauses found in human speech.[3] In human information processing research, the sentence has been used to show how readers depend on punctuation to give sentences meaning, especially in the context of scanning across lines of text.[4]

The example refers to two students, James and John, who are required by an English test to describe a man who, in the past, had had a cold. John writes "The man had a cold" which is incorrect grammatically in this case, while James writes the correct "The man had had a cold". Since James' answer was right, it had had a better effect on the teacher.

The sentence can be understood more clearly by adding punctuation and quotation marks:

James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.[5]

Yahew

I am unhappy with the last had had. As the teacher is still happy, I assume.

pickarooney

The teacher is dead.