Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Language is hard (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/microblogmemes

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[–] EnderWiggin 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

English is fucking weird. Take for example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

This is a perfectly fine sentence,. I am not sure I am fine with it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A much quoted comment and yet I don't get it the only meaning for the word Buffalo that I know is of an animal.

[–] Feathercrown 5 points 3 weeks ago

Buffalo = The city

buffalo = the animal, or the verb meaning "to bully"

The sentence is therefore roughly equivalent to "Buffalo animals that Buffalo animals bully, bully Buffalo animals."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

[–] bamfic 1 points 3 weeks ago

That motherfucker's a motherfucker, motherfucker.