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		teo_zero on Nov 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Weird Lexical Syntax I didn't downvote your comment but understand why it looks "wrong": it's like, in a thread on English oddities, you replied to someone bringing up the "buffalo buffalo buffalo" example with the question "why are you so fond of bovines"?

wslh on Nov 3, 2024 [–]

It has nothing to do with that. I could ask why he didn't choose a different homonymic ambiguity [1].

[1] https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php...

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