Re: Volcae and Volsci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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>
> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
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> > At 2:38:40 PM on Monday, April 7, 2008, tgpedersen
> > wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Would that be before or after he tells me why feels he can
> > > pontificate on Afrikaans without ever having seen a
> > > grammar for it?
> >
> > Wrong again.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> Come on, Torsten, don't be an ogre.

I would be if I threatened to send you a smelly postcard.

> You know Brian has seen this material and it does say the
> creoleness/criollismo of Afrikaans is not universally accepted,

Exactly, the jury is still out. Brian, however, goes on as if the
matter is settled and every honest linguist knows that Afrikaans is
not a creole.

> While I'm inclined to side with you, I respect Brian's opinion and
> want to see what he has to say. The verb system of Afrikaans
> definitely resembles that of English Creoles,

and of the Scandinavian languages, and of English, for that matter

> so does the use of
> double negatives vis-a-vis a parent language that doesn't.
> But there's a lot the article doesn't tell us that Brian may know.

Brian tells us that 'if Wikipedia can be trusted' Afrikaans has a
strange double negative. That tells me that whichever Afrikaans
grammar he claims to have seen in the past, he didn't see on the inside.


Torsten