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October 30, 2010

Did you know that Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo is a grammatically correct sentence?

“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo. It was posted to Linguist List by Rapaport in 1992. It was also featured in Steven Pinker’s 1994 book The Language Instinct.

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The Sounds of an African Grey Parrot

December 10, 2008

An interesting fact about the African Grey parrot is how well they can talk and copy sounds that they hear repeated often. They are like living recorders. If they like the sound of the words being spoken they will speak these words or sounds quicker than they will others.

These parrots are well known in the bird world for their large vocabularies and for loyalty to their favorite person.

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Africa’s Languages

“The continent of Africa contains over one thousand languages (some have estimated over two thousand), with four major language families native to Africa.” Language groups: Afro-Asiatic languages Nilo-Saharan languages Niger-Congo languages Khoisan languages Non-African language families Creole languages Unclassified languages Sign languages [wikipedia 1] [wikipedia 2]

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Japanese Language

Each and every word in the Japanese language either ends with a vowel or an ”n”. [en.wikipedia.org]

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Common Words

“The word “the” is the most common word in standard English, followed closely by “be” and “to”.” [source]

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