• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Not an essential word if you the listener have context! It’s just that understanding this phrase is reliant on reader knowing context (i…e either that buffalo tend to buffalo buffalo OR just the theory/gimmick of the sentence itself.)

    Also i believe OP made some effort to indicate via Capitalisation that one repeated buffalo is a proper noun. (Place name)

    See: Buffalo(pl) buffalo(an) Buffalo(pl) buffalo(an) buffalo(vrb), buffalo(vrb) Buffalo(pl) buffalo(an)

    pl: place, an: animal, vrb: verb.

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      3 months ago

      Washington cats [missing] florida rats chase, annoy Vegas whores.

      There needs to be a which, that, who or something in that missing space for a proper sentence structure.

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        3 months ago

        Nope, that makes perfect sense to me without which that or who.

        “Washington cats florida rats chase annoy vegas whores”

        1. The washington cats 2. Which florida rats chase 3. They annoy vegas whores

        It’s a question of where you put pauses and intonation, when sounding it out in your head (or to another person). If you read it monotone it makes little sense. Unfortunately, knowing how its said requires deciphering it first. A lot of english novels have stuff like this, you’ll probably find - you have to read sentences twice to understand what it means

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            3 months ago

            There’s probably no way for me to prove to you that it makes sense to me, unless you learn how to make sense of it yourself. I mentioned “which” and “they” because, as an english speaker knowing context about cats and rats, i can infer what connective could go there, but i don’t need it because without the connectives we get a more colloquial informal way of saying it all.

            Is english your first language or is something else ?

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              3 months ago

              Are you saying the following sentence is perfectly fine English?

              Quaterback Love Greenbay Packers drafted, played Detroit Lions.

              No. It’s missing at least one word.