Arab Pride
#164
Re: Arab Pride
In Broad Scots Doric dialect (Scotland), " Fit fit fits fit fit?" can be more easily understood if you imagine a Buckie fisherman in a shoe shop looking in a puzzled manner at a pair of shoes and asking: "What foot fits what foot?" i.e. "Which shoe fits which foot?"
New word for the day "homophonous" phrases....
Another example:
Buffalo is a city in New York; a buffalo is any of several animals, such as a water buffalo or American bison (the plural is also buffalo); and to buffalo someone is to outwit or intimidate them. Thus, the sentence:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
can be rephrased as:
Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also intimidate other bison in their community.
New word for the day "homophonous" phrases....
Another example:
Buffalo is a city in New York; a buffalo is any of several animals, such as a water buffalo or American bison (the plural is also buffalo); and to buffalo someone is to outwit or intimidate them. Thus, the sentence:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
can be rephrased as:
Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also intimidate other bison in their community.
#165
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Re: Arab Pride
In Broad Scots Doric dialect (Scotland), " Fit fit fits fit fit?" can be more easily understood if you imagine a Buckie fisherman in a shoe shop looking in a puzzled manner at a pair of shoes and asking: "What foot fits what foot?" i.e. "Which shoe fits which foot?"
New word for the day "homophonous" phrases....
Another example:
Buffalo is a city in New York; a buffalo is any of several animals, such as a water buffalo or American bison (the plural is also buffalo); and to buffalo someone is to outwit or intimidate them. Thus, the sentence:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
can be rephrased as:
Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also intimidate other bison in their community.
New word for the day "homophonous" phrases....
Another example:
Buffalo is a city in New York; a buffalo is any of several animals, such as a water buffalo or American bison (the plural is also buffalo); and to buffalo someone is to outwit or intimidate them. Thus, the sentence:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
can be rephrased as:
Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also intimidate other bison in their community.