Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 06:09:07 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
> 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
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