Par : Siganusk
Marie-Lucie, there can be a debate here about how creolised somebody's French can be or how frenchified his/her Creole can be (see for instance the post <a...
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You can’t base the standards of creolity on the writings of a few disgruntled and transmyopic leftist academics most of whom were either left disappointed at the outcome of the last general elections...
View ArticlePar : John Cowan
French with a lot of Arabic mixed in, or for that matter Arabic with a lot of French mixed in, does not make a creole. The essence of a creole is that it is a radically new language system, though...
View ArticlePar : marie-lucie
There has been a lot of linguistic research about creoles and other mixed forms of language communication, and it is well established that the origin of creoles is not societal bilingualism but...
View ArticlePar : Aquinze
A la différence de Sig, qui a, semble-t-il, baigné depuis sa plus petite enfance dans un environnement multilingue, je me souviens très précisément de ma toute première rencontre avec une langue autre...
View ArticlePar : marie-lucie
Il existe un certain nombre de cas documentés d’enfants élevés ensemble (souvent jumeaux, ou presque du même âge) qui se sont inventé une langue à eux, incompréhensible par leurs proches. Ce cas n’est...
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Off topic: can anyone shed light on <a href="http://throwgrammarfromthetrain.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">this</a> use of "mutant" in Zanzibar?
View ArticlePar : Siganus K.
Because they generally tend to be ill-considered, creoles are seldom written and formalised. This is one of the reasons why they often vary rather rapidly over time. Due to the way they were born and...
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Linus: You can’t base the standards of creolity on the writings of a few disgruntled and transmyopic leftist academics Okay, but on whose writings should it be based then? The MMM government published...
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