Re: Relexes Pt. 1: Defence

Gary Shannon ha tera a:

> In the final analysis it might be difficult to find a
> conglang that is not a relex of SOME language, whether
> Latin, English, or Urdu.  Is there really such a thing
> as a novel grammar?
It is very hard to come up with grammar points for a conlang that do
not already exist in some language; a law or phenomenon that we here
have nicknamed "ANADEW", for "A Natlang's Already Dunnit Except Worse".
 However, I think there are enough different permutations of
combinations of different grammar points that it would actually be
quite difficult to unknowingly come up with a relex of a language you
don't know.

Estel

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