With apologies for dissecting the frog...

Since we're talking of individual bears rather than meat, and since 
'bear' doesn't admits a null plural (like sheep), you have a 
subject-verb agreement problem. Also, the recursion seems a little 
problematic because when the null relative pronoun is in subject 
position, you can't omit 'that'.

 Bare bear(s) bear bare bear(s) [that] bear bear(s)...

However that reminds me of the sentence in Stephen Pinker's The Language 
Instinct (which IIRC he attributes to a grad student):

 Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

(= The bison from Buffalo that (other) bison from Buffalo intimidate 
(themselves)  intimidate bison from Buffalo)

Karl

Phil Bralich wrote:

>I am sure many of you are aware that the pronunciation [ba:r] is capable of 
>making a fully recursive sentence where all the words are phonetically 
>idenitical meaning, "naked bears give birth to naked bears who in turn give 
>birth to naked bears who then in turn give birth to naked bears" and so on. 
> 
>to whit:
> 
>Bare bear bear bare bear
> 
>Bare bear bear bare bear bare bear bear
> 
>Bare bear bear bare bear bare bear bear bare bear bear ...
> 
>and so on ad infinitimus recursibus ursimus. 
> 
>Phil
>
>
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>    Subject: Re: BEAR and time "I was born poor."
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>    That's an interesting way of characterizing it, Craig (acting/behaving). No
>    matter how we characterize the verbs, though, we can see that there seems to
>    be some consistency between what the verbs mean and how they behave
>    grammatically.  And that is really difficult to teach second language students!
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