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Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 5, 2003, 19:23
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> 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.
I shall call it "Andreas's Law of Freaks". -- [W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little John Cowan febrile with foodpoisoning from an antique carrot jcowan@reutershealth.com that I foolishly ate out of an illjudged faith www.ccil.org/~cowan in the benignancy of vegetables. --And Rosta www.reutershealth.com

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