• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 hours ago

    i think it’s a riff on how the animal pictured is a buffalo, and you can technically make a correct sentence by repeating “buffalo” with and without a capital B, in certain dialects.

    similar to how you could say “reid read ‘red reed’” and it’ll make sense if you intonate it correctly

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      15 hours ago

      Thank you! Every language has its quirks but I feel sometimes that English is in its own category 😅

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        12 hours ago

        eh, i think it’s just because english has so many dialects, it’s effectively a whole lot of really similar languages in a trenchcoat.

        My swedish dialect has equally stupid stuff, i could conceivably say “ä i öa i åa?” (literally just a string of vowels) meaning “is it the island in the river?”, there’s even a comedy song about how wonderfully dumb the dialect can be: (slightly NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHGuZyUBKSk