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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. -- Ceci n'est pas une .sig.