• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    Quaterback Twins Greenbay Packers draft, play Detroit Lions.

    Nope. Still missing a word.

    If the sentence was technically grammatically correct then a direct substitution of all 8 words (without adding more) should make sense.

    I’ve already provided a counter example where it doesn’t make sense. I’ll drop my argument if you can find one that does.

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      Quaterback Twins Greenbay Packers draft, play Detroit Lions.

      This sounds fine to me (although I wouldn’t use the comma), I dunno what to tell you. Maybe it’s different in your idiolect, but again, do you really think you’re picking up on something that countless other linguists missed?

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        Without an additional word between words 2 and 3, this is just a list. That’s why it makes no sense.

        You only think it makes sense because you are adding in words subconsciously.

        Still waiting for an example that actually works.

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          You only think it makes sense because you are adding in words subconsciously.

          do you really think you’re picking up on something that countless other linguists missed?

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            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.