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Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Thursday, March 6, 2003, 11:09
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> 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.
Heard of it, never watched it.
> 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.
I think it rather more likely that accounts of visits of ETs are garbled myths. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_

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