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

From: P&G
Message: 21448
Date: 2003-05-02

>>Why would anyone not
> > "travelling in the trade network" replace their own language by a
>> pidgin, and start speaking it in the home?
> Elite breakdown.

And are you seriously suggesting there was such an "elite breakdown"
throughout the Roman Empire? The evidence is that the invaders learnt the
elite language, not the other way round.

Peter