Brain Comics for 2008-03-24

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Brainley is standing in front of a small device somewhat resembling a gramophone. It is labelled CHOMSKY 1000.

Brainley: Behold, the grammarphone - a device capable of generating grammatically-valid sentences. Let's hear what it has to say!

Chomsky 1000: Buffalo buffalo buffalo.

Brainley: I'm...not sure I understand. Could you elaborate?

Chomsky 1000: Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Brainley: Look, you can't just make an entire sentence out of buffalo!

Chomsky 1000: Buffalo!

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Quoth Wikipedia: Indeed, for any n >= 1, the sentence buffaloⁿ is grammatically correct (according to Chomskyan theories of grammar). The shortest is 'Buffalo!'

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Brain Comics #84 originally published 2008-03-24.

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