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“Believe it or not, this sentence is grammatically correct and has meaning: ‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.'”
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This reminds me of the delightful Thai language sentence, “Mai mai mai mai mai?”
Like many other languages in that part of the world Thai is tonal. There are five tones; mid, low, falling, high and rising. Thus the meaning of a given syllable is also determined by its tone.
Depending on the tone the word mai can mean ‘new’, ‘burn’, ‘wood’, ‘not?’ or ‘not.’
In this sentence the first mai is pronounced with a high tone, the second with a low tone, the third and fourth with a falling tone and the last one with a rising tone, which indicates a statement is a question.
It translates as, “New wood doesn’t burn, does it?”
To which the correct answer is of course, “mai.”
My my.
That’s true.
“My my” would be another correct answer.