Re: [tied] Re: Japanese as a creole language?

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 20612
Date: 2003-04-01

Brian:
>No. Icelandic borrowed from Danish and Low German (and
>subsequently got rid of most of the borrowings). That does
>not a creole make. No pidgin, no creole. (And this has to
>be the silliest example of a 'creole' yet.)

How about Pig Latin? ;)


- gLeN


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