Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs
From: | Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> |
Date: | Friday, March 7, 2003, 16:33 |
Muke Tever <mktvr@...> 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."
That, and 'Andreas's Law of Freaks' are the best two yet!
K.
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