• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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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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      5 hours ago

      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.