Re: RE : [tied] Re: North of the Somme

At 5:37:49 PM on Sunday, September 2, 2007, tgpedersen
wrote:

> Wrong. Runic might look like Icelandic, which it is close
> to, but the 'Continental Scandinavian' languages
> Norwegian, Swedish and Danish have been creolised in the
> same was as English, Dutch and Low German:

None of these languages has been 'creolized', unless you
have a private definition of the term that basically means
no more than this:

> drastic reduction in inflection for cases and genders in
> nouns, and person and number in verbs.

Brian