Re: Was proto-romance a pidgin?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> 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.
>

Elite breakdown. The loss of the class that writes letters to the
editor, checks other peoples' spelling and writes postings on
cybalist. 1066 and all that.

Torsten