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

>It seems to me ... that VL is simply a recorded variant (or
> variants) of some versions of popular Latin, while PR
> reconstructs early forms of those popular Latin
> dialects which evolved into the modern languages. In
> the process I assume that many dialects of popular
> Latin simply disappeared, so in a sense both VL and PR
> only give us a glimpse of something vaster.******

Spot on.

Peter