Well, given that there isn’t a similar sentence that makes sense (without inserting words). Yes.
I mean, I appreciate that it’s a bit of linguistic fun dreamt up by Dmitri Borgmann. But it’s flawed. It needs an additional (non-buffalo) word to make proper sense.
Well, given that there isn’t a similar sentence that makes sense (without inserting words). Yes.
I mean, I appreciate that it’s a bit of linguistic fun dreamt up by Dmitri Borgmann. But it’s flawed. It needs an additional (non-buffalo) word to make proper sense.
Maybe you should make an edit on the wiki page then so all the other people can understand it as well as you.
Do any other famous sentences also need edits?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher
No problems there. You can substitute other words to confirm that the sentence makes sense.
Note that that sentence that had had, had words other than had and that had had an impact.