Timeline for Longest "De Bruijn phrase" in English
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| Nov 6, 2016 at 13:41 | audit | First posts | |||
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | eithed |
I don't think this answer should be valid as, even though each word means a different thing, after rotation the meaning words should stay at the same place (if that makes sense). For example Buffalo (city) buffalo (bizons) buffalo (intimidate) rotates to buffalo (intimidate) Buffalo (city) bufallo (bizons) which isn't valid.
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 9:33 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | This can be infinitely long; any number of repetitions of the word "buffalo" can be parsed as a valid, if difficult, sentence. | |
| Oct 23, 2016 at 9:15 | comment | added | Good Person | You can get to arbitrarily long phrases if you follow the logic in 'Sweet Reason' | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 11:51 | comment | added | yo' | @FlorianF You could add: "Boston bulls that Boston bulls bully do bully Boston bulls." (I emphasized the inserted sentence and added "that" and "do") | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | GOTO 0 | We even have a post about this: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/2540 | |
| Oct 22, 2016 at 8:55 | comment | added | Florian F | It's clear like this: Boston bulls Boston bulls bully bully Boston bulls. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 22:02 | comment | added | halfmang | Buffalo = a city, buffalo = animal, buffalo = to bully/intimidate. You can read it something like this: "Buffalo buffalo (buffalo from Buffalo), Buffalo buffalo buffalo (whom buffalo from Buffalo intimidate), buffalo Buffalo buffalo (intimidate buffalo from Buffalo)." It's weird | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 19:49 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | See the WP link in the answer. However, contrary to prescriptivist nonsense, this is not grammatical. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 18:39 | comment | added | gtwebb | @Aristide I'm a native English speaker and it doesn't make much sense to me either. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:30 | comment | added | Aristide | Oh, this example is interesting too, although it's somehow "degenerated" and far above my English level to make sense for me. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | GentlePurpleRain | @Aristide If you don't want this kind of answer, you could specify that $W_1 \neq W_2 \neq ... \neq W_n$. | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:11 | comment | added | Aristide | Yes, this kind of answer was proposed for my previous question too :) | |
| Oct 21, 2016 at 17:09 | history | answered | GentlePurpleRain | CC BY-SA 3.0 |