Re: Thracian , summing up

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>> And with good reason. The hallmark of pidginisation is the erasure
>> (I repeat: erasure, not partial reduction) of the grammatical
>> structure of the language being pidginised, which did not happen
>> anywhere in Romance.
>
> Erh, a grammarless language??

Of course not. A language with simple grammar (usually analytical),
*not deriving* from the pidginised language grammar. To put in on
another way: a language which reinvents the (simplest) wheel in
which concerns grammar.

>> It seems new populations learnt passable colloquial Latin in the
>> process of being Romanised -- or do you think it's impossible for
>> people to learn a second lanuage in this way?
>
> No TV, no textbooks, no teachers.

No E.U., no McDo, no Coca-Cola. Practically all people who learned
another mothertongue getting Slavicized, Romanized, Germanized, etc.
had the same sad conditions. Laziness wouldn't have been of any help
in their cases. Humans erected pyramids without using any advanced
technology, though their descendents still doubt about possibility
to learn another language if needed, without technical support. :)

> A passable colloquial Latin should be poossible, yes. Take the
> tourist traps today.

People learning a second language weren't tourists. That was about
their normal lifes.

Cheers,
Marius Iacomi