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

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 20621
Date: 2003-04-01

At 3:55:06 AM on Tuesday, April 1, 2003, tgpedersen wrote:

> Yes, I should have checked that there was also
> declensional simplification etc.

<shrug> I suggest that in future efforts to communicate
your ideas, you insert boilerplate reminding your readers
that you use your own definition of 'creole'. I have only
one question: how do you distinguish your 'creoles' from
real ones -- those born of pidgins -- terminologically? Or
do you really think that all of your 'creoles' do derive
from pidgins?

Brian