Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:17:42PM -0500, Muke Tever wrote:
> From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
> > 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.
>
> Maggel's Paradox!  "Your radical ideas have already occurred to others."
[snip]

LOL... I like this one :-) I recommend this be added to the Conlang Jargon
file :-)


T

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