Re: CHAT: Law of ten times worse natlangs

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:25:38PM +0000, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- H. S. Teoh skrzypszy:
>
> > How about ANADEW? A Natlang's Already Dunnit Except Worse. :-)
>
> Good idea. And the phenomenon will be called "anadewism" :)
[snip]

In that case, can we define a conlanger's challenge as creating a balance
between anachronism and anadewism? :-P

And Hanuman Zhang can spin off a whole 'nother pidgin chaos conculture
based on the balancing of chron and dew (ala yin and yang), and we'd be
talking about how much dew vs. how much chron a conlang has.

(OK, I better stop now before this pun becomes unbearably painful. :-P)


T

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