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None of these are reasons one should consider it a creole language. It may have been influenced by other languages, but that doesn't make it a creole.
by aap_ 9y ago
None of these are reasons one should consider it a creole language. It may have been influenced by other languages, but that doesn't make it a creole.
- kafkaesq 9y agoYou can go find a linguist to debate this if you want. My basic points are simply: (1) the author of the original article wasn't making much of a point, and (2) in regard to what you were saying, where exactly English sits on the spectrum of hybrid languages is a multi-faceted issue -- rather more complex issue than simply the proportion of loan words.