Re: Was proto-romance a pidgin?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 21418
Date: 2003-05-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > > perhaps the creoles are spoken by those who were participating
in, but
> not actively >>travelling in the trade network.
>
> Why would they speak such a Creole? Where did it come from? What
is the
> linguistic context which would produce speakers of this creole?
Creoles
> typically emerge when native speakers learn as a first language,
what is a
> pidgin or second language for their parents. Why would anyone not
> "travelling in the trade network" replace their own language by a
pidgin,
> and start speaking it in the home?
>
> The concept is not really believable.
>
Elite breakdown. The loss of the class that writes letters to the
editor, checks other peoples' spelling and writes postings on
cybalist. 1066 and all that.

Torsten