Re: Japanese as a creole language?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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

> > 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?

> You introduced this distinction - I didn't.

No, I didn't introduce the distinction. Rather, you are failing
to make a normal distinction.

> Of course there would have been a pidgin or "foreigner talk"
> after Hastings.

If so, it evidently had very little effect on the development
of the English language. But you'd actually have to look at
the evidence with open eyes to see that.

Brian