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Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, March 6, 2003, 11:38
Quoting Muke Tever <mktvr@...>:

> 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."
Stated in this form at least, this law would seem to apply to much more than just conlanging. ALF/anadew/NBQL/whatever-we-settle-on would be a special case relating to conlang features. Andreas PS I hope everyone noticed Tristan's Law; If you ask a question about a possible invariance, you'll probably get a law named after you.