Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

In a message dated 2003:03:05 12.42.30 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.ATH.CX writes:

>In that case, can we define a conlanger's challenge as creating a balance
>between anachronism and anadewism? :-P
>
>And Hanuman Zhang can spin off a whole 'nother pidgin chaos conculture
>based on the balancing of chron and dew (ala yin and yang), and we'd be
>talking about how much dew vs. how much chron a conlang has.
    ::ears prick up at mention of _nom de plume_::
    ::winces & shakes head::
    Erp!, I do believe that g0miileg0 is enough of a challenge for me (at
least for now).
Thanx for thinkin' so highly of me ;)

>(OK, I better stop now before this pun becomes unbearably painful. :-P)
    Please do. I am still wincing from the PUNishing ConLang DiLingo...  ;)
:P~

Hanuman Zhang, MangaLanger

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