English is weird

Word order is bullshit. Buffalo shouldn’t be able to be repeated over and over again and make a sentence.

Bring me my clitics and my declension boots!

Who watches the watchmen? Who watches the watchmen of watchmen?

Police police police police. Police police police police police police.

Said the actress to the bishop.

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My favorite example of this is “you can’t be too emphatic”

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She told him that she loved him.
Insert “meat”.

Hey, you’re right!

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It shows on my system…

Especially if you use Shatner’s voice.

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Pfft. All the cool kids are using “…except in bed”.

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Or as Calvin once said

“I before E except after C? What a weird society!”

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There’s also Thomas Pynchon’s classic “You never did the Kenosha kid”

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Well a chainsaw is certainly capable of ending a childhood.

Is it as weird as, “Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” Though?

See? There’s plenty of weirdness in English.

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She should make up her mind.

OK, what is this supposed to demonstrate?

Also why is there a grammatical error in the damn question command*?

Unless it’s this they want us to do:

*Fixed thanks to the grammar pedanty overflow of ChuckV :wink:

I noticed that, too. But you lose some pedantism points because the damn sentence isn’t actually a question.

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