The best diagram on Wikipedia?

by Steven Garrity

There’s a page on Wikipedia about the absurdly long, but grammatically correct, English sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

As if that weren’t enough, there’s a delightful diagram to help explain sentence:

Diagram of relation of different types of buffalo
Diagram from Wikipedia

While I love the absurdity of the diagram above, there’s another image on the Wikipedia page that I found more effective in explaining the buffalo sentence:

Diagram comparing buffalo sentence with a similar example ("Chicago cats Denfer dogs bully bully Minnesota mice.")
Diagram from Wikipedia

 

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