• lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    What’s amazing is you can actually make a grammatically correct sentence by repeating “vague, ever-present dread” eight times

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        1 day 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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            21 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