{"id":7529,"date":"2012-11-27T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T22:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2012-11-27T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T22:25:25","slug":"smile-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/smile-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”<\/p>\n

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This is an example of how\u00a0homonyms<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0homophones<\/a>\u00a0can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by\u00a0William J. Rapaport<\/a>, an associate professor at the\u00a0University at Buffalo<\/a>.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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The meaning becomes even clearer when synonyms are used: “Buffalo-origin bison that other Buffalo bison intimidate, themselves bully Buffalo bison.”<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of my nephew at Cornell who shared this with me on our drive back to campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buffalo buffalo that Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”   This is an example of how\u00a0homonyms\u00a0and\u00a0homophones\u00a0can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}