Re[2]: [tied] Re: Japanese as a creole language?

At 7:20:28 AM on Tuesday, April 1, 2003, Glen Gordon wrote:

> 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? ;)

Ah, but that's clearly suis generis.

Brian