chris magnusson

8 Sep 2009

One-Note Sentences

sarahlane:

nostrich:

These one word repetitive Buffalo-like sentences (there has to be a more succinct way to say that) seem popular, so here are a few from other languages, courtesy of Futility Closet:

Finnish:

Etsivät etsivät etsivät etsivät etsivät.

“The searching detectives are searching the searching detectives.”

Spanish:

¿Cómo como? ¿Cómo cómo como? Como como como.

“How do I eat? What do you mean, how do I eat? I eat how I eat.”

Clicky for Icelandic, Malay, Romanian, Hungarian, and Tagalog examples.

This is even cooler than “Se fue a Safeway”, which was the best thing I learned in 4 years of Spanish classes. (Safeway is a West coast grocery store chain, for the uninitiated)

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