Re: linguistics humor

En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:

> http://www.icw-net.com/howto/funstuff/cattoast.htm
>
> Not that the others aren't amusing too, but the "honorable mention" in
> linguistics is pretty funny.
>
Yep! But as for the grandprizewinner... The theory of the cat-toast has already
been known for years (I saw it the first time when I was still in high
school!). IIRC, some laboratory was developing anti-gravity cars using this
phenomenon. The problem being if the cat manages to eat the toast (quite a
catastrophe if you make a cruise ship with this system!). There were
experiments going on trying to replace the butter with something else (jam,
peanut butter, etc...) in order to find something that the cat would never want
to eat.

> So, has anyone made a conlang with such a conservation law?  =)
>
Hehe, a language with a geographical conservation law... If I ever develop
dialects of Maggel, remind it to me!! :)))

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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