Re: Japanese as a creole language?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> > wrote:
>
> > > I have only
> > > one question: how do you distinguish your 'creoles' from
> > > real ones -- those born of pidgins -- terminologically? Or
> > > do you really think that all of your 'creoles' do derive
> > > from pidgins?
>
> > You introduced this distinction - I didn't.
>
> No, I didn't introduce the distinction. Rather, you are failing
> to make a normal distinction.
>
> > Of course there would have been a pidgin or "foreigner talk"
> > after Hastings.
>
> If so, it evidently had very little effect on the development
> of the English language. But you'd actually have to look at
> the evidence with open eyes to see that.

Tsk, tsk.

Torsten