Re: My version

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

>
> At 2:58:15 PM on Saturday, February 21, 2009, tgpedersen
> wrote:
>
> >> [Afrikaans is] often considered as a creole as well.
>
> > But those who are supposed to know dislike that idea
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans as much as
> > English-speakers dislike that idea of their own language.
>
> And mathematicians 'dislike' the idea that 2 + 2 = 4.01.

So '2 + 2 = 4.01' <=> 'Afrikaans is a Creole'?

>
> Your insistence on describing these views as 'dislikes' says
> more about your approach to linguistics than it does about
> the views themselves.

And your hilarious jack-in-the-box condemnations of my
unscientificness says more about ... erh well something than
something else or something.

I must admit to a certain evil streak in my nature; half my fun comes
from watching you jumping all over the place, defending 1066 and the
inviolability of the English Channel, whenever I say those things.

But please say when, if it becomes too much, I wouldn't want you to
lose your mind.



Torsten