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

At 3:26:48 AM on Monday, September 3, 2007, tgpedersen
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> 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.

> What else is there to it?

Creolization is the formation of a creole. None of these
languages was ever a creole.

Brian