i think it's a riff on how the animal pictured is a buffalo, and you can technically make a correct sentence by repeating "buffalo" with and without a capital B, in certain dialects.

similar to how you could say "reid read 'red reed'" and it'll make sense if you intonate it correctly

[–] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you! Every language has its quirks but I feel sometimes that English is in its own category 😅

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

eh, i think it's just because english has so many dialects, it's effectively a whole lot of really similar languages in a trenchcoat.

My swedish dialect has equally stupid stuff, i could conceivably say "ä i öa i åa?" (literally just a string of vowels) meaning "is it the island in the river?", there's even a comedy song about how wonderfully dumb the dialect can be: (slightly NSFW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHGuZyUBKSk

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