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The sentence employs three distinct meanings of the word buffalo: As an attributive noun (acting as an adjective) to refer to a specific place named Buffalo, such as the city of Buffalo, New York; As the verb to buffalo, meaning (in American English [1] [2]) "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle"; and
The sentence is nonsensical in British English, not because buffalo is a regional term for bison, but because 'to buffalo' has no meaning rather than meaning 'to bully'. --Ef80 22:34, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
The sentence kuku-kuku kakiku kok kek kaku, kakak-kakakku? means "why do my toenails look a bit rigid, my sisters/brothers?". Note that kek in Indonesian is an informal form of seperti means "look like" or "kind of".
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Getty Images As the second largest city in New York State, Buffalo's vibrant population of more than 270,000 has coined a local language all its own. Whether you're heading "upstate" for a taste ...
One of the stated reason why the Buffalo sentence is difficult to understand, "The length of the sentence reaches the limitations of human ability to parse structure and meaning" seems to undermine itself. In fact, sentences can be considerably longer and still quite intelligible. Smurfs smurfing smurffy smurfally smurf smurf Smurfette!
A rare white American buffalo calf, which is considered sacred to some Indigenous people, has not been seen since its birth earlier this month, Yellowstone National Park confirmed.
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.