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Sorry, this may be a bit different from the rest of the thread, but I couldn’t think of a better place to put this.

The word “go” has a lot of different meanings in the English language. Here is a non-exhaustive list:

  1. Verb - movement, operation, e.g., “I must go”, “My car won’t go”
  2. Noun - a turn or attempt, e.g., “Give it a go”, “Have a go at it”
  3. Adjective - properly functioning, e.g., “All systems go”
  4. Noun - an abstract board game*, e.g., “igo”, aka “weiqi”, “baduk”
  5. Noun - a programming language
  6. Noun - a style of music, when it is repeated as “go go”

The last three meanings also give rise to corresponding adjectives, e.g., “go go dancer”, “go books”, which might refer to books about the game or the programming language.

Hence, in a manner similar to saying “buffalo” a bunch of times in a row, it should be possible to construct a grammatically valid sentence that is just the word “go” repeated many times, taking advantage of the many different meanings of the word.

So, here’s my grammar challenge (since you all seem to enjoy that so much):

What is the longest grammatically correct sentence that you can construct that only consists of “go” repeated over and over?

Please provide a valid syntactical interpretation that demonstrates the meaning and grammatical correctness of your constructed sentence.

*apparently, some people on this forum actually might play this game occasionally
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