Talk:buffalo

      What goes wrong with buffalo.jpg?

      This page is really quite a mess, -and on other wikti's too!- mostly because the word is so ill-defined as it can refer to (at least) three different animals and does so differently in every language... I think we need to start making an inventory of how it is used in various languages before you can make sense of it.

      nl:Gebruiker:Jcwf

      language general term general term used for America
      Bison bison      		 Africa
      Syncerus caffer      		 Asia
      Bubalus bubalis
      Dutch buffel Afr+ Asian,
      for Amer. inaccurate translation of the English      		 bizon kafferbuffel karbouw, waterbuffel

      buffaloe

      buffaloe as an alternative spelling? --Keene 18:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

      Herds

      The phrase "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is grammatically correct, and rather cool. It means something like "The bisons (which are from the town of Buffalo), which the bisons from the town of Buffalo deceive, deceive the bisons from the town of Buffalo." --Keene 18:24, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

      Last modified on 6 March 2008, at 18:24