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 Here’s something interesting I found today.

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The above is a grammatically correct sentence.

Surprised?

Read on.

The word buffalo is used in three meanings here:

1. Buffalo, a city in the state of New York. Eg. “I’m a lawyer from Buffalo, NY.”
2. Buffalo (the animal) in its plural form. Eg. “An average herd consists of 500 buffalo.”
3. Buffalo, a verb meaning to bully or intimidate. Eg. “Don’t try to buffalo me, dude.”

The order of these three meanings in the sentence is

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And the literal meaning of the sentence is (substituting a similar word “Delhi” for form 1, “bison” for form 2, and “bully” for form 3)

Delhi bison who are bullied by (other) Delhi bison, also bully (other) Delhi bison

Its a little difficult to understand straight off, but stay at it. It will come.

For more info, Check out wikipedia. They explain this sentence by using several templates.