• Swedneck
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      2 days 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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          2 days 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