Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf]

Post by smnrchrds » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 7:33 AM UTC

cskau wrote: post #12

Interestingly, while Google Scholar has indexed the paper (from another site), it's actually only ranked number 2 for the query "chicken chicken chicken: chicken chicken": http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chicken+chicken+chicken%...

Post by srpeixinho » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 7:38 AM UTC

navs wrote: post #22

Now I really feel stupid. For the unenlightened, can someone shed some light on what this means please?

Post by anonymous » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 8:18 AM UTC

zaph0d wrote: post #16

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" would have at least been grammatically correct.

    struct chicken chicken(struct chicken chicken) {
        return chicken.chicken;
    }

Post by seanmcdirmid » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 8:58 AM UTC

Post by James_Duval » Thu, Jun 06, 2013, 9:28 AM UTC

anonymous wrote: post #25

zaph0d wrote: post #16

"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" would have at least been grammatically correct.

It is grammatically correct, since nouns can be verbed -- chicken can be a noun, verb and even adjective, even though its verb form doesn't have a defined meaning -- it's just meaningless. Think of it like this: struct chicken chicken(struct chicken chicken) { return chicken.chicken; } This will parse, it just won't compile, since we're missing the definition of struct chicken. Contrast with "chicken go fly", which i…