Re: Japanese as a creole language?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:

> At 9:40:55 AM on Friday, March 28, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:
>
>
> >> However, we may also note French entirely losing
> >> Indo-European declension yet it's not a "creole" and
> >> fully IE.
>
> > I don't get it. Do you understand 'creole' and 'IE' as
> > mutually exclusive? And BTW French is full of Germanic
> > loanwords. The Frankish upper class spoke a Germanic
> > dialect, so French has passed through the requisite
> > sociological conditions for being creolized.
>
> No, because there is no break in transmission. A creole
> sensu stricto requires such a break.
>

Is too. The first written record of French sensu strictu are the
Strassburg oaths, pledged by the Frankish kings, which are also the
one of the first records of OHG, I believe. Before that time, no
French records, only bad Latin.

Torsten