This and that Buffalo sentence prove English is dumb
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You only believe this because you haven't seen the alternative. Listen to a reading of The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den.
What's the buffalo sentence?
I know the police one.
Police police police police police police police police
If you know the context of each time the word police is said, you might understand the sentence better.
But yeah, English is stupid.
Then, there is also this: https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/MjAxMy0wYTUyZGQyMTFlMTVlMTA5.png
English experienced a fatal recursion error. Please reboot
I don't have the boot disk unfortunately.
On continuera cette conversation en français. Bien sur je plaisante.
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