Re:English is weirdly different from other languages
by talideon on Thursday June 01, 2017 @03:33AM
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It's not a creole: it's a creolised language. There is a difference: a creole is a language descended from a pidgin (and thus has increased in complexity), whereas a creolised language is one that has drastically simplified/regularised due to contact. These are two different phenomena.
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