Re: [tied] Middle English Plurals

>As I recall Brian's argument, the difference
>between a creole and a proper language was that if enough of the
>development stages of a language is known so that we may follow its
>development in detail, then it is not a creole, otherwise it is. In
>other words the status of a language is determined not by a property
>of that language, but by a property of our knowledge of it.

I am not sure if you are agreeing with this or not. But either way, it is
nonsense. I have posted to this list once before - the last time this topic
came up, or the time before - a list of about six "properties of language"
which creoles can be expected to show. It's all there in the standard
literature.

Peter