• octoperson@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    No it isn’t. Language should convey its own meaning. If you need a whole page of diagrams and supplementary materials to explain your sentence then it was never a sentence to start with. “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” may be a joke or a riddle but it is in no way a grammatically correct sentence.

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      1 year ago

      There are tons of examples of things that are grammatically correct, but also ambiguous enough to need external explanation.

      At best you could say it’s a poor choice of words if you’re actually trying to convey something to your readers, but it most definitely is grammatically correct, as evidenced by the page of diagrams and supplementary materials that explained exactly why.