[tied] Re: Creole Romance?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 05-07-03 21:32, Brian M. Scott wrote:
>
>
> >>>> You might even interpret the story to mean that as late
> >>>> as in Caxton's time, people in England used one language
> >>>> at home and another, more regular one in the market.
> >
> >>> Whether any of them did or not, there's nothing in
> >>> Caxton's story that suggests such an interpretation.
> >
> >> And there's nothing to contradict it.
> >
> > There's nothing in the story to contradict the notion that
> > the moon is made of green cheese; would you care to draw
> > that inference as well?
> >
> > To the minimal extent that the story says anything about the
> > matter, it points in the opposite direction. Clearly
> > neither the merchant nor the wife was acquainted with both
> > forms of the 'egg' word.
>
> I recommend to Torsten's attention the _whole_ of Caxton's prologue

to

> _Eneydos_, where the egg anecdote is given. It's instructive as

well as

> entertaining. Caxton speaks at length about the "dyuersite and

chaunge

> of langage" and the nonexistence of a standard variety of English

in his

> times.
>

You confuse me with Brian. I have been both instructed and
entertained by the story. I mere inferred from that stateof affairs
the necessity of creole, or at least an ad-hoc pidgin, to communicate
when outside of ones native area.

Torsten