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Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by lifeisstillgood on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:08PM (#9507494)
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo

(It's a valid sentence, honest)

Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by damon_c on Thursday May 07, 2015 @03:41PM (#9507724)
You did it wrong. This is just the name of the city of Buffalo over and over.
Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by mhurron on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:17PM (#9507962)
or the animal, or several combinations of the city and the animal.

But definitely not a sentence.

Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by gnud on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:25PM (#9508024)
Well, I'm certainly no expert, but Internet Lore has it that any number of 'Buffalo' forms a valid sentence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo...
Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by BuildTheRobots on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:38PM (#9508123)
(I think) if one capitalises every word, then they all have to be taken as proper nouns, rather than a mix of adjectives, nouns and verbs (as depicted in the tree diagram on the wiki page). At that point you're just failing to count properly ;)
Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by lifeisstillgood on Friday May 08, 2015 @02:38AM (#9510286)
You are quite right - I remembered there were eight words, but did not think through the capitalisation.

Odd that I have -4 points on it - it seemed vaguely connected to the rest of the thread.

Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday May 07, 2015 @07:31PM (#9509105)
Unless it's title case as it would be in a newspaper headline. The lack of any punctuation proves this to be the case.

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Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by gnud on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:50PM (#9508216)
Of course - I missed that in the GP.
Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by damon_c on Thursday May 07, 2015 @04:43PM (#9508153)
Exactly.
Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by danslaboudoir on Thursday May 07, 2015 @08:23PM (#9509313)
Re:NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal by Th... by Crito on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:01PM (#9509444)
Well, that depends on what you mean by "valid".

The grammar rules that you find written down are an approximate encoding of rules that native speakers have all internalized. These written down rules are not perfect, and have edge cases. They allow for sentences that a native speaker would not formulate or easily comprehend. The "Buffalo" sentence is an example of such an edge case.