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Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Thursday, March 6, 2003, 9:30
Staving Andreas Johansson:
>I dunno if we ever made an official name for the law that says that for any >feature you can think up for a conlang, no matter how freaky, there is at >least one natlang that's already doing it, except ten times worse. If not, we >should give it a shortish name for easy reference.
How about "The Law of Inconstructible Perversity"? (as in, "You couldn't make it up") Pete Bleackley