m*******c 发帖数: 41 | 1 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 12:44:38 ES
From: William J. Rapaport
Subject: Re: 3.154 Parsing Challenges
Well, there's my Buffalo favorite:
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.
Here's the story. First, when I was a grad student in philosophy at Indiana
a long time ago, John Tienson gave us the example of:
Dogs dogs dog dog dogs
whose syntax is the same as:
Mice cats chase eat cheese.
We found the -s morpheme unaesthetic, so we came up with
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo b | m*******c 发帖数: 41 | 2 Heh,
Thanks for sharing your view on our sense of humor.
To each their own, I suppose. Personally I can't stand
a single minute of watching Seinfeld. |
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