Fogwin's Law
Oct. 26th, 2018 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uchuflowerzoneMany people in the habit of inventing new languages are familiar with Kay(f)bop(t), and I am no exception. What makes me special is that I am friends with the creator of Kay(f)bop(t): he and I are both members of the Sajem Tan tribe. (If I reference a certain "Stone" in this post, that is his tribal name.)
So I was talking with him today, and I remembered an idea I had. You see, it seems that whenever you go somewhere online where conlangs are being discussed, if the topic of strange, weird, or bad conlangs is brought up, someone always mentions Kay(f)bop(t). This is perhaps more common in some spaces than others.
I made this observation a long time ago and I was reminded of Godwin's Law, which states that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1". So, today, in our conversation, I said there should be a similar law surrounding my observation. Stone came up with the name "Fogwin's Law", ostensibly a pun based on the fact that my tribal name is Fog (though I like to imagine now that "Fog" is short for "Fogwin"). Fogwin's Law, as such, is defined thus:
And so that is Fogwin's Law.
So I was talking with him today, and I remembered an idea I had. You see, it seems that whenever you go somewhere online where conlangs are being discussed, if the topic of strange, weird, or bad conlangs is brought up, someone always mentions Kay(f)bop(t). This is perhaps more common in some spaces than others.
I made this observation a long time ago and I was reminded of Godwin's Law, which states that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1". So, today, in our conversation, I said there should be a similar law surrounding my observation. Stone came up with the name "Fogwin's Law", ostensibly a pun based on the fact that my tribal name is Fog (though I like to imagine now that "Fog" is short for "Fogwin"). Fogwin's Law, as such, is defined thus:
As an online discussion concerning conlangs (especially their weirdness) gets longer, the probability of a mention of Kay(f)bop(t) approaches 1.
And so that is Fogwin's Law.
