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Post by silverfox on Jan 7, 2010 10:28:42 GMT
Amber Aleman, can you confirm that Rax's sentence is, in fact, 'grammatically correct'?
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Post by Burtie on Jan 7, 2010 11:55:08 GMT
I've got an honours degree in English & Creative Studies from Portsmouth University. I'm well gud at spellinn and grandma.
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Post by sallycat on Jan 7, 2010 13:09:08 GMT
Amber Aleman, can you confirm that Rax's sentence is, in fact, 'grammatically correct'? In his absence, I can confirm it  "Buffalo" is, apart from the name of an animal, a verb meaning to tease or perplex, an American town, and a male given name. It also has at least one other meaning that I've forgotten. With a bit of imagination you can work a sentence around a buffalo called Buffalo from Buffalo, doing a spot of buffaloing to another buffalo from Buffalo called Buffalo. Edit: Just found this: –noun 1. any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo. 2. buffalo robe. 3. a buffalofish. 4. a shuffling tap-dance step. –verb (used with object) Informal. 5. to puzzle or baffle; confuse; mystify: He was buffaloed by the problem. 6. to impress or intimidate by a display of power, importance, etc.: The older boys buffaloed him. |
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 7, 2010 13:30:31 GMT
But the sentence still needs punctuating! ;D
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Post by silverfox on Jan 7, 2010 18:52:21 GMT
Sit up and fold your arms, class! I hope you've (you have!) all been paying attention?
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Post by Rax on Jan 8, 2010 9:37:29 GMT
But the sentence still needs punctuating! ;D Supposedly not good sir. It's meant to work as it is. |
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Post by sallycat on Jan 8, 2010 19:31:22 GMT
No, it doesn't: you're right, Rax.
Mark, say instead of Buffalo and Buffalo I put you and me and a synonym for the "buffalo" verb in the sentence. "Colliers Wood Sutton fan Mark perplexed Worcester Park Sutton fan Sal." That doesn't need any more punctuating, does it?
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Post by vern on Jan 8, 2010 22:45:47 GMT
It should say buffaloed then?
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 8, 2010 22:50:05 GMT
Ah, but Rax's sentence didn't include the word "buffaloed" (the equivalent of your "perplexed"). If we're usng the verb in the imperative mood then "buffalo" would work - but you'd then need an exclamation mark at the end.
Edit: I see Vern got there just before me!
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Post by Amber on Jan 9, 2010 14:39:35 GMT
In the words of that character from the The Fast Show: "Anyone fancy a pint?"
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Post by Burtie on Jan 9, 2010 16:05:59 GMT
In the words of that character from the The Fast Show: "Anyone fancy a pint?" Never more so. Nobody likes a show off. |
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Post by sallycat on Jan 10, 2010 15:04:39 GMT
Ah, but Rax's sentence didn't include the word "buffaloed" (the equivalent of your "perplexed"). If we're usng the verb in the imperative mood then "buffalo" would work - but you'd then need an exclamation mark at the end. Edit: I see Vern got there just before me! Yeah, I thought that, but I don't actually know for sure that the past tense of "buffalo" is "buffaloed." I guess putting a comma before the verb "buffalo" would make sense if it is. Yeah, let's have a pint |
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Post by Amber Aleman on Jan 10, 2010 17:37:36 GMT
Yeah, let's have a pint You're on. |
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Post by oohaah on Jan 14, 2010 10:11:51 GMT
Anyone know the difference between a Buffalo and a Bison?
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Post by Stewart on Jan 14, 2010 10:13:12 GMT
Yes
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"Buffalo" is, apart from the name of an animal, a verb meaning to tease or perplex, an American town, and a male given name. It also has at least one other meaning that I've forgotten. With a bit of imagination you can work a sentence around a buffalo called Buffalo from Buffalo, doing a spot of buffaloing to another buffalo from Buffalo called Buffalo.
