Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Tristan scripsit:
>
> > Hey, as far as I know, I'm the person who made it 'ten times worse'.
> I
> > randomly pulled the figure out in a post. I may be wrong; it's a
> pretty
> > common figure.
>
> And sometimes the wrong person gets credited:  Gay-Lussac's law was
> IIRC
> first published by one Amontons, and the Peano axioms ought rightly to
> be
> the Dedekind axioms.
If nothing else, "Andreas's Law of Freaks" makes for a decent acronym; ALF. I
hope I'm not the only one to remember that TV show. It also proves the theories
of a (literally) otherworldy origin of human speech. Seeing that "alf" is a
Scandinavian version of the word "elf", it also proves that all human myths are
really garbled acccounts of visits of extraterrestrials.

                                                           Andreas

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