by neminem » Fri May 14, 2021 3:49 pm
Apparently I created an account on this forum in 2012, but have never posted anything! But this one is forcing me to!
I'm assuming this comic was inspired by the well-known "buffalo" fact (that any sequence of just the word "buffalo" is a syntactically correct English sentence)? Anyway, years ago, someone pointed out that there were exactly two other words like that, "fish" and "people", thus, for instance, "people buffalo buffalo fish people buffalo buffalo people" is syntactically correct (whether or not it makes semantic sense, obviously). Never noticed there was a swearier version! Now I can say "shit shit shit shit shit shit shit", and in addition to being a completely accurate description of what the past year has been like, also say truthfully that it's a syntactically correct sentence! (Again, only syntactically. To my knowledge, shit can't shit, and if you're describing a person or people using the nominalized adjective, you'd have to call them "a shit" or "shits", sadly.)
I also recognize that it is exceedingly ironic that my first post absolutely breaks rule #8 of this forum, but I'm assuming, given the topic of the comic in question, that that's probably acceptable in this case? (Also, "shit" doesn't even look like a word now.)
Apparently I created an account on this forum in 2012, but have never posted anything! But this one is forcing me to!
I'm assuming this comic was inspired by the well-known "buffalo" fact (that any sequence of just the word "buffalo" is a syntactically correct English sentence)? Anyway, years ago, someone pointed out that there were exactly two other words like that, "fish" and "people", thus, for instance, "people buffalo buffalo fish people buffalo buffalo people" is syntactically correct (whether or not it makes semantic sense, obviously). Never noticed there was a swearier version! Now I can say "shit shit shit shit shit shit shit", and in addition to being a completely accurate description of what the past year has been like, also say truthfully that it's a syntactically correct sentence! (Again, only syntactically. To my knowledge, shit can't shit, and if you're describing a person or people using the nominalized adjective, you'd have to call them "a shit" or "shits", sadly.)
I also recognize that it is exceedingly ironic that my first post absolutely breaks rule #8 of this forum, but I'm assuming, given the topic of the comic in question, that that's probably acceptable in this case? (Also, "shit" doesn't even look like a word now.)