The eight-buffalo sentence uses all three meanings, so lets decipher it by substituting each with a similar word.
Well use bulls for the animals, French for hailing from France, and bewilder for the verb.
Okay, not much easier to understand.
The eight-buffalo construction is really commentary on the never-ending cycle of animal bewilderment in upstate New York.
From the single Buffalo!
To see this, suppose you have a string of n buffalo and it forms a valid sentence.
Repeating these transformations generates longer and longer grammatically correct sentences.
The phenomenon works with any word that can triple as a collective noun, verb, and adjective.
attempt to wrap your mind around more grammatical oddities below.
Did you miss last weeks puzzle?
Check it outhere, and find its solution at the bottom of todays article.
Be careful not to read too far ahead if you havent solved last weeks yet!
Ill be back Monday with the answers and a new puzzle.
Do you know a cool puzzle that you think should be featured here?
For example, there is never a moment during the day when both hands point directly at the 3.
Hand positions that actually occur on a typical functioning clock Im calling valid.
Our trick will be to imagine adding an extra hand that moves 12 times faster than the minute hand.
On this view, the interchangeable times occur whenever the hour hand and the extra hand overlap.
The extra hand moves 144 times faster than the hour hand (12 x 12).
So the number of valid times is 143.
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