Hmm, I don’t see how semicolons work in this sentence.
Marking up the sentence with extras to help visualize:
Buffalo-buffalo (who) Buffalo-buffalo (do) buffalo (in return also) buffalo (the other) Buffalo-buffalo.
A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts…
Buffalo buffalo → other nouns qualified by adjectives
Foreign cars
Austin techbros
big money
buffalo (verb) → other verbs
covet
cost
… would be:
Foreign cars Austin techbros covet cost big money.
(edit: I couldn’t quickly think of a location adjective for the last noun, which would have stuck to the pattern more closely, but “big” is still the same role, an adjective.)
That works too! It’s basically nonsense, but since they are valid adjectives and nouns and verbs you can construct almost any structure of sentence with them.
That’s because it needs a semicolon:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo; buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Also it isn’t a very good sentence because you’ve said the same thing twice.
It should read:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo; Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Translation:
“Buffalo” is a place, a noun (more or less meaning bison), and a verb (to harass or bully). So what it means is:
Bison bully bison; Buffalo bison bully Buffalo bison.
Hmm, I don’t see how semicolons work in this sentence.
Marking up the sentence with extras to help visualize:
A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts…
… would be:
(edit: I couldn’t quickly think of a location adjective for the last noun, which would have stuck to the pattern more closely, but “big” is still the same role, an adjective.)
That works too! It’s basically nonsense, but since they are valid adjectives and nouns and verbs you can construct almost any structure of sentence with them.
hmmm, I just copied from Wikipedia as my primary source. That was the faux pas that was cool before AI.
I happen to think wikipedia is still cool :)