Dmitri Borgmann

Dmitri Borgmann (1927 - 1985) was the man who created the sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo".  He published the sentence in his book "Beyond Language".  The sentence was later used by William J. Rapaport who was a professor in the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York.  The sentence has had a recent resurgence on the internet.

Borgmann has a Jewish background and was born in Berlin. He fled with his parents to the United States in the 1930s.

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