Re: Buffalo sentence (sidebar to Yakyakian Sentence)

From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 14:17:56 MDT

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    On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 00:11:26 +1000, Brett Paatsch <paatschb@optusnet.com.au>
    wrote:

    > "Yaky" sentences have nothing on a buffalo sentence I first encountered
    > in a book by a well known poster to this list.
    >
    > What do you figure the following actually means?
    >
    > Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
    >
    > - Brett Paatsch

    I lack context, regrettably.

    Maybe we could ask Aunt Hillary? (That's a Goedel, Escher, Bach ref., for
    those who need to be told)

    It seems to have at least eight bits in it--that's my guess at the lower
    limit: 10100010 (ANSI ¢) or the reverse, 01011101 (ANSI ]). It might even
    just code for a particular buffalo in a particular herd by (say) binary
    search in 2D: (from center of herd) North west North west south west North
    west *that one!*.

    I've never used B/buffalo encoding myself. It seems to have a pretty low
    coding density. And then there's all the buffalo bills to pay. 'Way back
    when they were giving them away to good homes. but now I've herd Ted Turner
    is hoarding them.

    But then I Google.
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Buffalo+buffalo+Buffalo+buffalo+buffalo+buffalo+Buffalo+buffalo%22&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf
    8&oe=utf-8

    And a rich source of buffalo, err, product lies before us. Further
    investigation is left as an exercise for those not alreay sufficiently
    buffaloed.

    -- 
    I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. 
    Sometimes I forget.
    


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