Re: [tied] Re: Was proto-romance a pidgin?

P&G wrote:

>>> perhaps the creoles are spoken by those who were participating in,
>>> but
> not actively >>travelling in the trade network
>
> Why would they speak such a Creole? Where did it come from? What is
> the linguistic context which would produce speakers of this creole?
> Creoles typically emerge when native speakers learn as a first
> language, what is a pidgin or second language for their parents. Why
> would anyone not "travelling in the trade network" replace their own
> language by a pidgin, and start speaking it in the home?
>
> The concept is not really believable
>
> Peter

The concept is not believable even for the change of a language
completely. Why whould one speak home a language which he use just in
the administration and army of the Empire?