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Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 6, 2003, 10:48
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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