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Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 23:33
Andreas Johansson wrote:


> 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 "Johansson's (First?) Law" or "...Law of 10"?
> Anyway, I just realized that Telenzh has ended up with a pretty scary set
of
> voiceless affricates; bilabial, dental, alveolar, postalveolar and velar.
To
> this comes alveolar and postalveolar voiced ones. Anyone know of a natlang > with this many, or even more affricates? >
Aside from the dental one ([tT]?) it looks quite normal IMO; German and its dialects comes close, for the voicless series at least.

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