Kitchen sink language

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A kitchen sink language is a language that has "everything including a kitchen sink", a pejorative that refers to languages that are excessively complex. Though naturalistic languages often do have very complex phonology^[1], morphology and/or grammar, kitchen sink languages are constructed languages that are complex without adding more depth or for no good reason.

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