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eppur_se_muova

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5. "Buffalo" is the name of a ruminant mammal and a city in NY state. It can also mean "to bully, obstruct".

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 10:03 AM

13 hrs ago

So this is a perfectly grammatical, logically meaningful sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

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The most not fun sentence in English for folks learning English 😀 [View all] malaise 15 hrs ago OP

;-{)....... Goonch 14 hrs ago #1

;-{) I borrowed one of your hearts🤣 Goonch 14 hrs ago #2

Hehehehe malaise 14 hrs ago #4

Nicely played malaise 14 hrs ago #3

"Buffalo" is the name of a ruminant mammal and a city in NY state. It can also mean "to bully, obstruct". eppur_se_muova 13 hrs ago #5

ROFL malaise 13 hrs ago #6

This message was self-deleted by its author malaise 13 hrs ago #7

Some punctuation might help. :-) TheRickles 13 hrs ago #8

Ain't that the truth. n/t malthaussen 13 hrs ago #11

That's the sentence I'd like to drag my seventh-grade teacher to and say... malthaussen 13 hrs ago #9

I have coarse and fine sea salt. After skipping on the coarse I thought to myself "fine is fine". twodogsbarking 13 hrs ago #10

LOL malaise 13 hrs ago #14

Ah but goose has yet another meaning. If you get goosed more than once is it geesed? twodogsbarking 10 hrs ago #17

Love it malaise 10 hrs ago #18

Do you really want to know? Chellee 8 hrs ago #29

I always want to learn something malaise 8 hrs ago #31

You're welcome Chellee 2 hrs ago #37

That letter is silent until I sez it aint! paleotn 13 hrs ago #12

French is the worst.. Permanut 8 hrs ago #28

Perhaps learning to read English. Igel 13 hrs ago #13

Spelled "ghoti" sounds exactly like "fish." Kid Berwyn 12 hrs ago #15

Haha malaise 12 hrs ago #16

When I was living in Catalunya, it was a requirement to learn the one about the setze jutges (sixteen judges) DFW 9 hrs ago #19

Haha malaise 9 hrs ago #20

When my daughters were very little I taught them the first part of that DFW 9 hrs ago #21

Clearly not wimps malaise 9 hrs ago #22

Here is the ultimate test of all time (you have to click on "watch on youtube" ) DFW 9 hrs ago #23

LOL malaise 8 hrs ago #24

5.8 million views DFW 8 hrs ago #25

Well I know every word for this one malaise 8 hrs ago #26

These words were part of one of the very very early I Love Lucy episodes sdfernando 8 hrs ago #27

Fascinating malaise 8 hrs ago #30

Interesting video! If you'd like to know how English ended up with those spellings/pronunciations, I posted highplainsdem 8 hrs ago #32

Thanks malaise 8 hrs ago #33

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Great! highplainsdem 7 hrs ago #36