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A interesting new way to look at a the word "buffalo."

I created this as a visual literacy project for a Technology and Digital Media course at school. It proves just how strange the English language is...enjoy!

NOTE: I have realized that I use the phrase "begs the question" incorrectly in this video. Perhaps that will be my next video idea - commonly misused logical fallacies. (-:

For more English shenanigans, visit: http://survivingenglish.wordpress.com
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Category:

Education

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• buffalo
• english
• language
• education
• literacy
• words
• media
• visual
• arts
• franco

[PasswordsFailMe]

I love this video, as I too am obsessed with grammar and recently answered about five Yahoo! Answers questions about this topic, but here's the thing -

For a person who knows a lot about grammar, you'd think you would have

- capitalized the "i" at 0:55

- known that "alright" is not a word at 2:31

Otherwise, though, this was great! xD

You know, Wikipedia has an article on this. "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

[stickfigureparades]

@PasswordsFailMe Yeah...to be honest, I was a bit hasty in making this, and I missed a number of simple mistakes (the lowercase 'i', not capitalizing 'American', misusing 'alright'). I was trying to meet a deadline, so quality suffered a bit. Though technically none of those errors are errors in grammar; they're orthographical errors, which are different. Just sayin'. :P

Oh well, maybe I'll remake it and fix the errors someday...I'm glad you liked it in spite of my issues! :)

[orangegold1]

Buffalo sauce is one proper noun.... You are wrong.

[stickfigureparades]

@orangegold1

The term "White House" can also be one proper noun, and yet, somehow, "white" is still an adjective describing the color of the "house", isn't it? It's all about perception and being open to interpretation. Thanks for your feedback, though! :)

[YankEZe911]

showed this to my language arts teacher.... i showed that bitch

[duumas]

I think I've just been buffaloed...

[wguidful]

This is the first I ever pay attention to an English lesson !

[SmokeWeedEveryDay629]

I just had an English lesson outside of school and pay attention. Whoa 

[Regginyaga]

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[Regginyaga]

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[MsEmandms]

The only thing is that you'd need to capitalize buffalo when you're talking about the city.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[Ellie21408]

That was a pretty cool video. Technically speaking, the term for the first "Buffalo" is noun adjunct, which means a noun that modifies another noun. It works like an adjective, like you said. /nitpick over

[rickyony]

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[SuperJonathanmatthew]

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