Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 2:29:36 PM on Monday, April 7, 2008, Rick McCallister
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > So there is creolization at work.
>
> There are evident contact effects. Creolization, however,
> is the process that turns a pidgin into a creole, and
> Afrikaans has no pidgin in its history back to PIE.

Afrikaans is the mother tongue of a large black and colored
population. In that population it started as a pidgin. Brian is now
going to pronounce that he knew that already.

> > The question is whether there's enough for you to convince Brian.
>
> No.

It is a matter of principle for Brian that he is right and I am wrong.


Torsten