Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

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.