Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Well, Buffalo is generally meant to imply running one by some one;
putting one over on; confounding one ... etc. Actually, my dictionary
offers:
verb ( -loes, -loed) [ trans. ] (often be buffaloed) informal
overawe or intimidate (someone) : she didn't like being buffal
On Jul 22, 2007, at 5:39 PM, keith helgesen wrote:
What about eleven times "had"? I remember this from high school-
(Yes- 60
years ago!)
Two boys, John and James wrote an essay;
John, where James had had 'had', had had 'had had'. "Had had" had
had the
teachers approval.
Bizarre language
n OZ
Keith Helgesen.
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> (World record for most prepositions at the end of a sentence, from a
> child protesting an Australian bedtime story: "Mommy, what did you
> bring that
Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Can we take the Buffalo gals instead?
Not sure. But at least we can ask if they can come out tonight.
Robert Patterson wrote:
Here is another sentence (not with prepositions) that is completely
grammatically correct:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buf
Can we take the Buffalo gals instead?
Aaron J. Rabushka
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> Robert Patterson
Robert Patterson wrote:
Here is another sentence (not with prepositions) that is completely
grammatically correct:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
There is a wikipedia article with a sentence diagram here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo
The short
Here is another sentence (not with prepositions) that is completely
grammatically correct:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
There is a wikipedia article with a sentence diagram here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo
The short version of parsing it is:
(World record for most prepositions at the end of a sentence, from a
child protesting an Australian bedtime story: "Mommy, what did you
bring that book that I didn't want to be read to out of about Down
Under up for?")
A preposition poem:
I lost a little preposition.
It fell somewhere beneath m
