From: tgpedersen
Message: 49785
Date: 2007-09-03
>What else is there to it? That white folks don't speak creole?
> 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.