From: tgpedersen
Message: 49810
Date: 2007-09-04
>Circular argument.
> At 3:26:48 AM on Monday, September 3, 2007, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> > <BMScott@> wrote:
>
> >> At 5:37:49 PM on Sunday, September 2, 2007, tgpedersen
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> Wrong. Runic might look like Icelandic, which it is
> >>> close to, but the 'Continental Scandinavian' languages
> >>> Norwegian, Swedish and Danish have been creolised in the
> >>> same was as English, Dutch and Low German:
>
> >> None of these languages has been 'creolized', unless you
> >> have a private definition of the term that basically
> >> means no more than this:
>
> >>> drastic reduction in inflection for cases and genders in
> >>> nouns, and person and number in verbs.
>
> > What else is there to it?
>
> Creolization is the formation of a creole. None of these
> languages was ever a creole.